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Auteur(s) : Black, Alistair (1955-....)  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : Libraries of light [Texte imprimé] : British public library design in the long 1960s / Alistair Black

Publication : Abingdon (GB) ; New York : Routledge, 2016

Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIV-242 p.) : ill., plans ; 24 cm

Comprend : The long journey to libraries of light ; Modernisation and modernism : the post-war public library and the revolution in its built form ; Style, siting and space ; Flagship libraries : intersections of style, siting, space and light ; Holborn Central Library : Scandinavia "light" ; Hampstead Central Library : into the light ; Bourne Hall Library : light from space ; Birmingham Central Library : light from within.

Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
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. 0In 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. 0A 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

Sujet(s) : Bibliothèques (constructions) -- Grande-Bretagne -- 1945-....  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Bibliothèques -- Éclairage -- Grande-Bretagne -- 1945-....  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Indice(s) Dewey :  727.809 41 (23e éd.) = Bibliothèques (architecture) - Îles Britanniques  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781472472946 (hardback). - ISBN 1472472942 (hardback). - ISBN 9781315592336 (erroné) (ebook)

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