UID:
almahu_9949383274502882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
1472472942
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9781472472946
,
9781315592336
,
1315592339
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9781317105343
,
1317105346
,
9781317105336
,
1317105338
Content:
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 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 new library designs--with their open-plan, decluttered, Scandinavian-inspired interiors--but also serves as a metaphor for the public library's role as a beacon of social egalitarianism and cultural universalism.
Note:
1. The long journey to libraries of light -- 2. Modernisation and modernism : the post-war public library and the revolution in its built form -- 3. Style, siting and space -- 4. Flagship libraries : intersections of style, siting, space and light -- 5. Holborn Central Library : Scandinavia "light" -- 6. Hampstead Central Library : into the light -- 7. Bourne Hall Library : light from space -- 8. Birmingham Central Library : light from within.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Black, Alistair. Libraries of light. London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017 ISBN 1472472942
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781472472946
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315592336
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781317105343
