Library

Fabrica’s library is hosted in a sort of spiral that descends gradually into the ground and is illuminated from above. It holds more than 8,000 volumes on photography, industrial design, art, graphic design and subjects related to visual communication as well as a a vast collection of international periodicals and over 400 audio CDs covering world music and 300 DVDs by the major international film directors. Recently, the Fabrica library has added a collection of 1,500 volumes about color, by architect Manlio Brusatin, that explores color theory and its various applications across history.

COLLECTION

Books

1470 

on Photography

 

1472 

on Graphic design

 

1120 

on Art

(including the complete collection of the Imago Mundi catalogs)

 

740 

on Design and Architecture

 

353 

Reference volumes

(atlases and vocabularies)

 

 

More books on cinema, narrative, media, sociology, fashion, textiles, ecology and religion.

 

Periodicals

52 

international titles on graphic design, photography, design, art, interaction and digital.

 

 

Titles include: Aperture, British Journal of Photography, Creative Review, Eye, Inventario, Internazionale, Cabana Magazine, Lurzer’s Archive, Luncheon, IdN and Tate.

 

 

The complete collection of Colors magazine (issues 1-90), founded in 1991 by Tibor Kalman and Oliviero Toscani.

 

CDs and DVDs

400 

CDs about ethnic music and sound effects.

 

308 

DVDs by directors

including Woody Allen, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Vittorio De Sica, Charlie Chaplin, Federico Fellini, Rainer Fassbinder, Howard Hawks, Godfrey Reggio, Abbas Kiarostami, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Luchino Visconti and Orson Welles.

 

Our purchasing policy, as far as the above-mentioned main subjects are concerned, aims to meet the needs of our users and pursue a coherent and harmonic development of the collection.

Photocopying the consulted materials is allowed.

Bibliographic references are provided.

Among the books dedicated to art, there is the complete collection of Imago Mundi catalogs.

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