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portada Libraries of Light: British Public Library Design in the Long 1960s
Type
Physical Book
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Publisher
Language
English
Pages
256
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
23.4 x 16.3 x 2.0 cm
Weight
0.57 kg.
ISBN13
9781472472946
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Libraries of Light: British Public Library Design in the Long 1960s

Alistair Black (Author) · Routledge · Hardcover

Libraries of Light: British Public Library Design in the Long 1960s - Black, Alistair

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Synopsis "Libraries of Light: British Public Library Design in the Long 1960s"

For the first hundred years or so of their history, public libraries in Britain were built in an array of revivalist architectural styles. This backward-looking tradition was decisively broken in the 1960s as many new libraries were erected up and down the country.In this new Routledge book, Alistair Black argues that the architectural modernism of the post-war years was symptomatic of the age's spirit of renewal. In the 1960s, public libraries truly became 'libraries of light', and Black further explains how this phrase not only describes the shining new library designs - with their open-plan, decluttered, Scandinavian-inspired designs - but also serves as a metaphor for the public library's role as a beacon of social egalitarianism and cultural universalism.A sequel to Books, Buildings and Social Engineering (2009), Black's new book takes his fascinating story of the design of British public libraries into the era of architectural modernism.

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