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Terms and conditions applyOffice for Metropolitan Architecture: Seattle Public Library
Michael Kubo
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Format: Book
Pages: 320
Publisher: Aktar
Date Published: Jul 2005
Stock Code: 36743
Binding: Hardback
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OMA's design for the Seattle Public Library, one of the firm's most heavily anticipated projects to date, begins with a radical rethinking of the very nature of the library. If the library exists today as a threatened sanctuary, it is because it has been done in by its own stubborn reliance on one kind of literacy and its consequent blindness to other emerging forms that increasingly dominate our culture, especially the huge efficiencies and pleasures of visual intelligence. Rather than merely package this traditional institution in a new way, OMA has completely reinvented it, transforming it wholeheartedly into a site able to aggressively orchestrate the coexistence of all available technologies for collecting, condensing, distributing, reading, and manipulating information.
This third book in Actar's series of Verb monographs reveals how the Seattle Public Library works, and examines it in terms of new media technologies that have changed the status of the library in the contemporary city from a traditional repository for books to an "information store." Also included is a comprehensive account of the design process, from initial concept through construction to ribbon cutting.
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