Martin's Scribbles: Sort of a Memoir [Paperback]

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.Martins Scribblesis atravel 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,Martins Scribblesis an entertaining account of Holubs experiences in his 80 years of travel, architecture, love and expat life; at times hilarious and others heartbreaking.This most unlikely memoirprovides a very personal and intimate witness of the worlds recent history through the anecdotes and reflections of a well-traveled man, husband and architect.Holubs creative visualization of memorable moments and influential meetings evoke a feeling of nostalgia for ones own past experiences, and are told as only Holub himself could tell them.Martins Scribbles takes the reader on a playful romp through the latter twentieth-century to the present, as seen through the eyes of award-winning architect Martin Holub. Not exactly a memoir, these anecdotes from childhood in Czechoslovakia, to adjusting to life in New York City, to galivanting around the world designing buildings sheds a playful light on the past century. Whether the pronouncements about life of a naive school boy, the observations of a resident alien in the Big Apple, or irreverent musings on politics and culture, we are caught up on this most un-memoir-ish memoir, as only Martin Holub can tell it.