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Architecture/Art Libraries and Reading rooms

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I'm doing research for the foundation of a small art/architecture library in Byron Bay Australia. There will be about 5,000 titles to begin. I am looking for models of great small scale intl libraries and reading rooms.

Please tell me any that you know about.. could be in museums, art centers, art/arch. schools, private collections, etc. I'm interested in seeing as many examples as possible.

Thanks for the help!

 
Jul 18, 07 5:48 pm
Carl Douglas (agfa8x)

Gordon Bunshaft's Yale library is awesome. One day I will go there and validate this proposition.

Jul 18, 07 8:52 pm  · 
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tinydancer

I have been to that Yale library and it is absolutely the most beautiful building I have ever seen-you must go!

Jul 18, 07 10:54 pm  · 
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Carl Douglas (agfa8x)
Here's some pictures.
Jul 18, 07 11:53 pm  · 
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xacto
snooker

Louis Kahn did a library in New Hampshire at a Prep School.

There is also a great Library at Clark University in Worcester, Mass.
I'm not sure who the Architect was.

Jul 19, 07 9:00 am  · 
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snooker

Will Bruder has done a number of Branch Libraries in the Phoenix,
Arizona Metro Area. Along with the Main Library in Downtown Phoenix.

There is also the firm of Richard+Bauer in Arizona who seem to be
lining up commissions for Libraries.

Both have web sites and have been published.

Jul 19, 07 9:04 am  · 
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^^ philips exeter academy.



Jul 19, 07 9:06 am  · 
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oops. snooker's kahn.

Jul 19, 07 9:06 am  · 
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snooker

hm...I met up with an Architect from Australia about a month ago here in the USA from southwest of Sidney. Laurie Vier, he is an exceptional architect from the work I have seen. He had a
CD with him so I was able to preview some of this work. I do recall seeing a very comfortable home libary as part of his body of work.

You don't happen to know of him?

When he was young he spent time on this side of the Big Pond working for Malcom Wells.

Jul 19, 07 9:27 am  · 
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aml
small libraries

by scogin & elam...

Jul 19, 07 3:30 pm  · 
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aml
boston public library allston branch

by machado and silvetti

Jul 19, 07 3:33 pm  · 
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