Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Central Library Chronicle
Author: Branch Library News
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Catalogue of the Central Library
Author: Sheffield. Free public libraries and museumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The Library Chronicle
Author: Dedicatory Exercises of the Central Library Building, Los Angeles
Author: Los Angeles Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Annual Report of the Eau Claire Public Library
Author: Eau Claire Public Library (Eau Claire, Wis.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
The Library Chronicle
Author: The Los Angeles Central Library
Author: Kenneth A. BreischPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606064908
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
In the most comprehensive investigation of the Los Angeles Public Library’s early history and architectural genesis ever undertaken, Kenneth Breisch chronicles the institution’s first six decades, from its founding as a private library association in 1872 through the completion of the iconic Central Library building in 1933. During this time, the library evolved from an elite organization ensconced in two rooms in downtown LA into one of the largest public library systems in the United States—with architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue’s building, a beloved LA landmark, as its centerpiece. Goodhue developed a new style, fully integrating the building’s sculptural and epigraphic program with its architectural forms to express a complex iconography. Working closely with sculptor Lee Oskar Lawrie and philosopher Hartley Burr Alexander, he created a great civic monument that, combined with the library’s murals, embodies an overarching theme: the light of learning. “A building should read like a book, from its title entrance to its alley colophon,” wrote Alexander—a narrative approach to design that serves as a key to understanding Goodhue’s architectural gem. Breisch draws on a wealth of primary source material to tell the story of one of the most important American buildings of the twentieth century and illuminates the formation of an indispensible modern public institution: the American public library.
Libraries of Light
Author: Alistair BlackPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317105338
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
For the first hundred years or so of their history, public libraries in Britain were built in an array of revivalist architectural styles. This backward-looking tradition was decisively broken in the 1960s as many new libraries were erected up and down the country. In this new Routledge book, Alistair Black argues that the architectural modernism of the post-war years was symptomatic of the age’s spirit of renewal. In the 1960s, public libraries truly became ‘libraries of light’, and Black further explains how this phrase not only describes the shining new library designs – with their open-plan, decluttered, Scandinavian-inspired designs – but also serves as a metaphor for the public library’s role as a beacon of social egalitarianism and cultural universalism. A sequel to Books, Buildings and Social Engineering (2009), Black's new book takes his fascinating story of the design of British public libraries into the era of architectural modernism.
Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .