Libraries A Planning and Design Guide

Name: Libraries A Planning and Design Guide
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ISBN: 9780415592307

ISBN-10: 0415592305

ISBN-13: 9780415592307

Edition: 2013

Authors: Ken Worpole

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Focusing on the practical issues which need to be addressed by anyone involved in library design, here Ken Worpole offers his renowned expertise to architects, planners, library professionals, students, local government officers and members interested in creating and sustaining successful library buildings and services. ContemporaryLibrary Architecture: A Planning and Design Guidefeatures:A brief history of library architecture An account of some of the most distinctive new library designs of the 20th & 21stcenturies An outline of the process for developing a successful brief and establishing a project management teamA delineation of the commissioning processPractical advice on how to deal…

Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 4/25/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 8.75" wide x 11.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English




The Library in the City



A City with a Great Library is a Great City



The Libraryness of Libraries



Libraries: The 'Sacred' Spaces of Modernity



What you see is what you get? Key Aspects of Library



A New Wave of Library Architecture



Planning and Design Processes



Developing the Brief and Establishing a Project Management Team



Places and Partners



Programme and People: The Changing Library Programme



A Vital Space for Children and Young People



Case Studies



Public Library Case Studies


Barcelona


Bournemouth


Brighton


Canada Water


Cardiff


Dagenham


Ewell


Glasgow Bridge


Hook


Huntingdon


Newcastle


Norwich


Whitechapel


Winchester



Academic Library Case Studies


Aberdeen University


Cranfield University


Sheffield University, Commons


Sheffield University, Western Library


Surrey University



Lessons for the Future



Lessons from the Case Studies and Post-Occupancy Evaluation



21st Century Libraries: Changing Forms, Changing Functions