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Geometries of Reading, Light of Learning: Louis I. Kahn’s Library at Phillips Exeter
Abstract In Louis I. Kahn’s library at Phillips Exeter Academy geometries of architecture and media function as parallel rhetorical systems, sometimes complementing, sometimes contradicting one another. This present paper examines how the geometric forms of the library shape patrons’ relationships to media in the collection, and how Kahn’s elementary geometries have accommodated new media characterized by non-geometric, non-linear forms.
Geometries of Reading, Light of Learning: Louis I. Kahn’s Library at Phillips Exeter
Abstract In Louis I. Kahn’s library at Phillips Exeter Academy geometries of architecture and media function as parallel rhetorical systems, sometimes complementing, sometimes contradicting one another. This present paper examines how the geometric forms of the library shape patrons’ relationships to media in the collection, and how Kahn’s elementary geometries have accommodated new media characterized by non-geometric, non-linear forms.
Geometries of Reading, Light of Learning: Louis I. Kahn’s Library at Phillips Exeter
Mattern, Shannon (author)
Nexus Network Journal ; 12 ; 389-420
2010-09-15
32 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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| British Library Online Contents | 2010
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