In a recent article, The Telegraph reported the enormous surplus of copies for Fifty Shades of Grey now being donated to charity shops in droves as the "hype" of the once coveted novel dies down. According to their sources, for every one that is sold, two more are received. Any judgement of the book's content notwithstanding, the persisting problem is that the books cannot be recycled because of the glue that was used for their assembly.
Towards a conversation about the lifecycle of the books half of the class will be designing and assembling at the end of the semester, I propose a question: what glues are "environmentally friendly"?
Source:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/10289912/Charity-shops-stuck-with-thousands-of-copies-of-50-Shades-of-Grey.html
The Architecture of Books is a seminar taught by Reto Geiser at the Rice University School of Architecture. Students are introduced to the book as a means to think about the production of space, and as a critical vessel to discuss and disseminate architectural ideas.
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