The architecture of the bookstore is influenced by deconstructivism, a movement of postmodern architecture in which the design “melts” around the edges and appears to be folding in on itself. Led by our firm’s founder, the late O.T. Marshall, the bookstore experimented on deconstructivism classicism and was influenced by Stanley Tigerman, the influential architect and director of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he taught Tom Marshall in its master’s program.