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Learning From The Library: (Without Cracking A Book)

This document provides an overview of different library spaces and designs through images and captions. It shows libraries serving not just as places for books but as community hubs, makerspaces, archives, event spaces, and more. Libraries are adapting to remain relevant by incorporating new technologies, collaborative areas, and multi-purpose rooms. The variety of designs, from traditional to innovative, demonstrate how libraries continue evolving to meet the changing needs of patrons.

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Learning From The Library: (Without Cracking A Book)

This document provides an overview of different library spaces and designs through images and captions. It shows libraries serving not just as places for books but as community hubs, makerspaces, archives, event spaces, and more. Libraries are adapting to remain relevant by incorporating new technologies, collaborative areas, and multi-purpose rooms. The variety of designs, from traditional to innovative, demonstrate how libraries continue evolving to meet the changing needs of patrons.

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Learning from the Library

Archive Wall @ Nam June Paik: Global Visionary,


Smithsonian Institution

(Without Cracking a Book)

Shannon Mattern
The New School | New York
wordsinspace.net
@shannonmattern

Chrtien Frederic Guillaume Roth, Tree of Knowledge, Encyclopdie;


Dewey: Design is the Norm

tienne-Louis Boulle: Projekt for the National Library in Paris, France, 1785;
Reclams Universal Library, 1911

Seattle Public Library

Carlo Dolci, St. Catherine Reading a Book, early 17 th c.

Spatial Information Design Lab, The Library Project;


Alberto Kalach, Biblioteca Jose Vasconcelos, Mexico City

Via AcidLabs

City Beautiful Civic Center, San Francisco

Smith Campus Plan, Via Shepley Bulfinch

Snohetta:
Temple
University

schmidt hammer lassen: University of Aberdeen Library

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios: The Hive, Worcester, UK

Andrew Berman Architect

University of Western Sydney

Penns Weigle Info


Commons;
Writing Center @ Falvey
Library, Villanova

Yi Architects: Stuttgart City Library

Libraries Without Borders Ideas Box, a Portable Multi-Media Kit for Refugee and
Vulnerable Populations

UNION

Smith

University of New South Waless Help Zone

Piano Rolls, National Film & Sound Archive, Australia

Henri Labrouste:
Bibliothque
Sainte
Genevive,
Paris, 1850

Labrouste: Bibliothque nationale, Paris, 1875

NYPL,
Scientific
American,
May 27, 1911;
via NYPL
Digital Gallery

Louis Kahn:
Philips Exeter Library

Seattle Book Spiral,


via Seattle Times

TAX arquitectura: Biblioteca Jose Vasconcelos, Mexico City, 2006

MVRDV: Book
Mountain,
Spijkenisse,
Netherlands,
2012

Venturi Scott Brown: Dartmouths Rauner Special Collections

Gordon Bunshaft: (SOM) Beinecke

Bruno Rainaldis Sapiens Bookcase;


Albrect Drer, St. Jerome in His Study, 1514

Thomas Demand, Archive, 1995

Harvards
metaLab

University of Chicagos Mansueto


Library, Automated Storage

Visualizing RFID, Touch

Norman Foster: Philological


Library, Freie Universitt Berlin

Snohetta: Hunt Library,


North Carolina State University

HMFH: Roeper School

Shepley Bulfinch: Johns Hopkins,


Brody Learning Commons

Joel Sanders Architect: University


of Pennsylvania Education
Commons

Norman Foster: Philological Library, Freie Universitt Berlin,


aka the Berlin Brain

Situ Studio: Maker Space, NY Hall of Science

Harkness Table, Phillips Exeter Academy

Snohetta: Hunt Library Game Lab

Hunt Library Visualization Lab

Hunt Library Immersion Theater

Hunt Library Apple


Tech Showcase

The Edge @ Duke University

The Labs @ Carnegie Libraries of Pittsburgh

Chattanooga Public Librarys 4th Floor

Digital Commons @ Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Library, Washington, D.C.

Maker Space @ Chicago Public Library

Tel Aviv Library Co-working Space

Garnet
Hertz

Miler

Epistemic Objects: Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Portable Monuments

My Class Doing Creative Classification Exercises


@ The Interference Archive & The Reanimation Library

Event Space @
Penn Special
Collections;
Auditorium @
University of GA

Haverford
Special
Collections

Bowdoin & Penn Special Collections Centers

Beinecke
Library

Alvar Aalto: Woodberry Poetry Room @


Harvard,
Via Cervin Robinson

My Archives, Libraries + Databases


Class @ NYC Municipal Archives

Digital Preservation @ The New Museum

Thaw Conservation Center @ Morgan Library

Mark Dion, The


Packet

University of Georgia Special Collections Library Exhibition Spaces

William H.
Wright
Special
Collections
Exhibit Area,
Robert B.
Haas Family

Oberlin Archives

Thank you.
wordsinspace.net
@shannonmattern

Mark Dion, Library for the


Birds of Massachusetts

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