What is it about?
The article showcases a number of outstanding examples of library architecture of the past 10 to 15 years and thus collects various aspects of extraordinarily successful libraries. As a topical introduction to a Handbook of Library Architecture the overview stresses the importance of defining your own criteria and of testing them against existing examples with the help of visits.
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The Handbook brings a vast multitude of topics of library architecture. This introductory chapter tries an approach structured by a number of mostly aesthetic criteria with which to help readers to find or define interesting examples to visit.
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The chapter is based on the extensive library architecture experience of the author, and it stresses the importance of planned visits as a means to define the needs and refine the views of what makes a sucessful library.
Dr Ulrich Niederer
ZHB Luzern
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This page is a summary of: Herausragende Bibliotheksbauten der vergangenen zehn Jahre – eine Aufforderung, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/9783110403183-003.
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