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09 April 2007 - Designing new public library buildings
Conversation starter
On
Architecture: How the new Central Library really stacks up, by Lawrence
Cheek, in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 27 Mar 2007
- There are lots of folks who hate it.
- Browse the comments and consider what some librarians and architects
have posted there.
Discussion themes
Edwin Arnaudin will lead us in a discussion of the challenges facing
designers trying to create new public library facilities.
Other readings
- Frank Lloyd
Wright on YouTube
- think about innovative design in general and ask yourselves
if that kind of design belongs in libraries
