What do Prague, London, New York and Tehran have in common? Award-winning architect Martin Holub has lived, designed buildings and enriched lives in all these places. Martin's Scribbles is a travel memoir, meets architect biography, meets lifetime reflection. Readers are taken on a playful romp through the latter twentieth-century to the present, as seen through the eyes of Holub – from a schoolboy in Czechoslovakia with an imprisoned mother, to an expat and lively architect living, working and socializing in New York City. A collection of autobiographical short stories, Martin's Scribbles is an entertaining account of Holub's experiences in his 80 years of travel, architecture, love and expat life; at times hilarious and others heartbreaking. This most unlikely memoir provides a very personal and intimate witness of the world's recent history through the anecdotes and reflections of a well-traveled man, husband and architect. Holub's creative visualization of memorable moments and influential meetings evoke a feeling of nostalgia for one's own past experiences, and are told as only Holub himself could tell them.
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Architecture Essays & MonographsTable of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Arrival in the New World
- Peach on the Beach
- An Angel on Wheels
- My Mothers Purchase of Art
- Going to Tehran
- Exchange Trip to Georgia
- Strictly Personals
- How Did I Become an Architect?
- My Grandfather Bohumír
- Flash Revelations
- First Visit Home
- The Intelligent Typist
- Apartment Hunting in New York City
- Becoming a Citizen
- Naftee Man
- Two Percent
- First Wedding
- A Close Call
- Ginsberg
- Early Sex Stories
- St. Martins Parties
- My First and Last Job in America
- Banishment
- Stroke of Luck
- How I Danced with a Feminist
- My Take on Iran
- The End of an Era
- My Mother
- Rusty Goat
- How Communism Helped My Career
- First Honeymoon
- Sothebys
- How I Did Not Become a Fashion Model
- Woodstock College
- War Memories
- Simon Alexander
- Yevtushenko in Jackson Hole
- My Lecture in Prague
- Mrs. Weiner
- Coincidences
- Stateless in Tehran
- First Time Out
- Advocate
- Scared in Times Square
- Karen
- Olives in Varna
- Legal Victory
- Studio 54
- Ideological Dossier
- Iranian Architect
- Too Late
- Teaching
- My Mothers Mink Coat
- Design Philosophy
- My Father
- Kazimir Jones
- My Troubles with English
- Building Together
- My Grandmothers Ashes
- Asia Society
- Teenage Obstreperousness
- Divorce
- C of O
- Robbery in Catania
- Boarding School
- Thick Skin
- My Time in the Czechoslovak Army
- Leaving London
- A Stunningly Beautiful Woman
- Subterfuge
- Jasan
- Childlessness
- Guilt
- Piano Lessons
- Church Pistols
- How Communism Warped People
- The Mattress Principle
- School in Nature
- A New York Moment
- More than One Life
- A Foolhardy Flight
- Patriotism
- Mr. Heckert
- Third Marriage
- Louis Kahn
- More Childhood Memories, This Time Not Sexual
- Metaphysical? Supernatural?
- Park East Synagogue
- What Kind of Dogs?
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