The constructions of public libraries : general tendencies

Fayet, Sylvie

Bulletin des Bibliotheques de France
(ReLIS:doi:doibbf:v:1996:i:5:p:593)

Abstract:

During the last ten years, a durable dynamics is born as regards library constructions. Progress is quantative as well as qualitative. The library is now invested with a symbolic function, and made responsible for giving an urban emblematic image ; the architecture of the buildings has an increasing importance. The recent realizations try to reconcile two aspirations,a priori divergent : the research of an open and transparent library, and the return to more intimate spaces, throwing back to the traditional image of the study library.

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