Logotopia: the Library in Architecture, Art and the Imagination is a multi-disciplinary exhibition and publication featuring original artworks, commissioned essays and stories, contemporary library architecture, library lore and ephemera, and pop culture icons. Artists, writers and architects explore the library as a concept and a built form through four distinct categories—the Universal Library, the National Library, the Public Library, the Private Library—and take a peek into the future of new technology and the librarian as cyber avatar.

Featured Architects Hariri Pontarini Architects, Kongats Architects, Patkau Architects, Shigeru Ban Architects, Shim-Sutcliffe Architects, and Snøhetta Architects share their inspirations and their deep appreciation for libraries of all types, in both Canadian and international contexts.

Featured Artists Adam David Brown, Douglas Coupland, Denis Farley, Guy Laramée and Michael Lewis contribute another dimension to the Logotopia experience. Their works encompass a wide range of media and were chosen for their visual commentary on the notion of the library and their reinforcement of the link between art, architecture and literature.

Featured Writers Lise Bissonnette, Ray Bradbury, Alberto Manguel, Robert Jan van Pelt and Nora Young inform and expand the multi disciplinary tribute to the library by recounting their personal and professional library experiences in essays created expressly for Logotopia.