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    Martin's Scribbles: Sort of a Memoir
    Martin's Scribbles: Sort of a Memoir
    Martin's Scribbles: Sort of a Memoir
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    Martin's Scribbles: Sort of a Memoir

    By Martin Holub

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRadius Book Group
    Release dateNov 15, 2018
    ISBN9781635766004
    Martin's Scribbles: Sort of a Memoir
    Author

    Martin Holub

    Born in Czechoslovakia in 1938, Martin Holub received two degrees in architecture before taking a position as a designer in an architectural office of a state-owned building contractor in Prague. He also worked in London as a designer for various architectural companies before settling in New York City, where he currently resides. Holub has been in private practice as Principal of Martin Holub Architects since 1971.

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