This project is a collaboration with the reconstructed original Bertram Goodhue design from 1923. The concept of SPINE is developed from the history and global diversity of written language and the evolution of human life form responsible for invention. The titled alludes to the spine of a book, the vertebrae and that the work can be read like a book laid open on its spine. The entrance is defined by two scallops that function as end sheets defining the archaic (as architecture) and the post-literate (as quantum theory). Occupying the position as title page, “The Well of Scribes” is a bronze relief map of the world stamped with the locations and dates od book burnings, accidental and purposeful, throughout history. As one ascends up to the library entrance four levels of step risers with incised and infilled text, defined the history of the evolution of language as, archaic, syllabic writing, reproduction (print), and post-literate. Largely focusing on amphibians, three ascending pools define the evolution of the human capacity to generate, record and preserve information, culminating in the female well and the Peregrine falcon water source rock. As a side bar, the grotto fountain, designed in collaboration with Lawrence Halprin, speaks to the evolution of civil liberties including the 14th Amendment and a quote by Frederick Douglass. The various implications and meaning are explicated in an illustrated, 128 page book, SPINE, by Jud Fine and Harry Reese.