The Legend of the Sinking Library — An Architect’s Worst Nightmare

A tale about blind spots and the weight of knowledge

Grant Piper
4 min read1 day ago
Photo by Gabriel Sollmann on Unsplash

An urban legend has been circulating in the architectural and academic communities for decades. Surfacing in the 1970s, there is a tale of a vast university library that was built to hold an astounding number of books. The library opened to much fanfare and was…

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Grant Piper

Professional writer. Amateur historian. Husband, father, Christian.