A handbook on the design and the planning of libraries - a particularly prestigious design task that underwent significant changes in recent years. Comprehensive contributions by experts from architecture and library science analyze specific aspects of the building type a typology of some 40 exemplary international projects provides inspiration and a range of options.

Entwurfsatlas Bibliotheken (German Edition)

Arts & Photography

Wong, Liliane

Lushington, Nolan

Rudorf, Wolfgang

Architecture

Birkhauser

Written by three of the greatest minds when it comes to library design and architecture, Libraries - A Design Manual digs into the history of libraries and their design within communities. The library is a service institution. A collection made accessible to a particular community, the library is defined by its contents and the society it serves. The development of the library is inextricably linked with the evolution of these two elements. 
 As the concepts of the collection and its accessibility shift through time with cycles of seminal discoveries and the changes brought about by such inventions, they redefine the library s role in society. In the handbook Libraries - A Design Manual by experts Nolan Lushington, Lilian Wong, and Wolfgang Rudorf readers are presented with the various conversations and intricacies when it comes to designing a library. 
 Containing international case studies from the late 1990s to the present, Libraries - A Design Manual is a handbook on the design and the planning of libraries a particularly prestigious design task that underwent significant changes since the introduction of digital technology in the late 1990s. Comprehensive contributions by experts from architecture and library science - Nolan Lushington, Lilian Wong, and Wolfgang Rudorf each analyze specific aspects of the building type. A typology of some 40 exemplary international projects provides inspiration and a range of options. 
 Studying the evolution of the role of libraries within society, from a private resource to living room of the city, Libraries - A Design Manual brings to the forefront the multiplicity of roles of the modern-day library and its intertwining design.

Libraries - A Design Manual

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Libraries: A Design Manual

Narrative environments are a compositional strategy to re-present the times in a life of a building. Narratives associate the many different times and spaces inherent in a particular space at a specific time. The reuse of materials, transformative interventions and the continuation of cultural phenomena result in densely woven narratives. The buildings, projects andessays of the current Int | AR volume explore the stories that inhabit spaces.

IntAR: IN BETWEEN [narrative environments]

Rhode Island School Of Design

Berger, Markus

Liliane Wong's latest volume on adaptive reuse in architecture presents 50 spectacular conversion and reuse projects worldwide, including buildings such as the TWA Hotel at NewYork's John F. Kennedy Airport, the CaixaForum in Madrid, and the New Museum in Berlin. The projects are presented using a new classification system that addresses practitioners as well as academics. The author's introductory essay provides a comprehensive overview and historical context for the enormous evolution and expansion of adaptive reuse over the past 50 years.\nPresentation of 50 seminal and spectacular adaptive reuse projects in architecture New classification of a wide variety of remodeling and conversion projects Written by a leading expert in the field

Adaptive Reuse in Architecture: A Typological Index

History

Americas

Building in existing fabric requires more than practical solutions and stylistic skills. The adaptive reuse of buildings, where changes in the structure go along with new programs and functions, poses the fundamental question of how the past should be included in the design for the future. On the background of long years of teaching and publishing, and using vivid imagery from Frankenstein to Rem Koolhaas and beyond, the author provides a comprehensive introduction to architectural design for adaptive reuse projects. History and theory, building typology, questions of materials and construction, aspects of preservation, urban as well as interior design are dealt with in ways that allow to approach adaptive reuse as a design practice field of its own right.

Adaptive Reuse: Extending the Lives of Buildings

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