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Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Competition of Plans for the New Library Building for the Oakland Free Public Library, the Gift of Andrew Carnegie, Esq
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Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Pages : 16
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Competition of Plans for the New Library Building for the Alameda Free Public Library, the Gift of Andrew Carnegie, Esq
Author: Alameda Public Library (Alameda, Calif.)
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Category : Library architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Category : Library architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Philanthropy and Light
Author: Oriel Prizeman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317081285
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Walter Gropius associated standardisation with promoting civilisation in 1935, yet Andrew Carnegie’s influence on the proliferation of pattern book public library plans internationally predated these observations by 50 years. Through the first twenty years of his programme, he supported the erection of almost three thousand public buildings across Britain and America. Though better acknowledged in the US than the UK, this philanthropic contribution radically extended the scope of public provision and remains incomparable in its scale and scope in both nations. Frequently engraved with the self-deifying slogan Let there be Light , open access to navigate these new interior public spaces after work coincided with the first provision of electric light. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, professional groups had sought to specify minimum standards of natural light and air for schools and hospitals. However, the commercial quantification of electricity accelerated the development of a readily comparable vocabulary to prescribe adequate quantities of light for all tasks regardless of their location or orientation. Seeking to gauge the extent of universal values, this book concentrates on the design and performance of a handful of early Carnegie library buildings in Britain and America, identifying their response to contemporary design theory, but also by contrast to their respective local environmental contexts. It examines whether their standards of provision were equitable and if these privately financed public buildings were the first roots of generically standardised public environments to be shared transatlantically. The book also argues that the public library building type can provide a datum for acknowledging the twentieth century legacy of shared international environmental standards for public spaces more broadly.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317081285
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Walter Gropius associated standardisation with promoting civilisation in 1935, yet Andrew Carnegie’s influence on the proliferation of pattern book public library plans internationally predated these observations by 50 years. Through the first twenty years of his programme, he supported the erection of almost three thousand public buildings across Britain and America. Though better acknowledged in the US than the UK, this philanthropic contribution radically extended the scope of public provision and remains incomparable in its scale and scope in both nations. Frequently engraved with the self-deifying slogan Let there be Light , open access to navigate these new interior public spaces after work coincided with the first provision of electric light. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, professional groups had sought to specify minimum standards of natural light and air for schools and hospitals. However, the commercial quantification of electricity accelerated the development of a readily comparable vocabulary to prescribe adequate quantities of light for all tasks regardless of their location or orientation. Seeking to gauge the extent of universal values, this book concentrates on the design and performance of a handful of early Carnegie library buildings in Britain and America, identifying their response to contemporary design theory, but also by contrast to their respective local environmental contexts. It examines whether their standards of provision were equitable and if these privately financed public buildings were the first roots of generically standardised public environments to be shared transatlantically. The book also argues that the public library building type can provide a datum for acknowledging the twentieth century legacy of shared international environmental standards for public spaces more broadly.
A Catalog of Books Represented by Library of Congress Printed Cards Issued to July 31, 1942
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Dedication of the Carnegie Library Building of the Oakland Free Public Library, Monday, June 30, 1902 ...
Author: Oakland Free Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Languages : en
Pages : 4
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Preliminary Competition for the Building to be Erected for the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. May 21st, 1897
Author: New York Public Library
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Category : Library architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Category : Library architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Dedication of the New Library Building (gift of Andrew Carnegie) at the Town Hall, Revere, Mass. November Eighteenth, Nineteen Hundred and Three. [With Illustrations.].
Author: Public Library (REVERE)
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Languages : en
Pages : 29
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Dedication of the New Library Building
Author: Revere Public Library (Mass.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 29
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Pages : 29
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Proceedings at the Opening of the New Library Building
Author: New York Public Library
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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