Libraries: a design manual

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"A handbook on the design and the planning of libraries - a particularly prestigious design task that underwent significant changes in recent years. Comprehensive contributions by experts from architecture and library science analyze specific aspects of the building type; a typology of some 40 exemplary international projects provides inspiration and a range of options."--

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Full title :Libraries : a design manual / Nolan Lushington, Wolfgang Rudorf, Liliane Wong ; contributions by Norma Blake [and 8 others].

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Publication Date:©2016

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Birkhäuser
Place of Publication:Basel
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2016

The Physical Object

Description:263 pages : : illustrations (chiefly color) ; : 33 cm

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ISBN:3034608276, 9783034608275, 9783034608268, 3034608268
oclc:ocn919571541
LC Classification:Z679
Dewey Decimal:727.8

Principles of the library building : [I.] The building type and its emergence : The library in its social context / Liliane Wong with Nolan Lushington -- The library user as customer / Norma Blake -- On the typology of the library / Ursula Kleefisch-Jobst -- Form and function in library design / Karl-Heinz Schmitz -- Public libraries in the United States / Nolan Lushington -- [II.] Planning processes and spatial organization : Toward the design of libraries / Rebecca Chestnutt -- Plan configuration and layout / Liliane Wong -- Library spaces for children, teens and young adults / Liliane Wong with Nolan Lushington -- Dialogues : client, librarian, architect / Klaus Ulrich Werner -- Funding options / Liliane Wong -- [III.] Technical requirements : Structural concepts / Wolfgang Rudorf -- Climate control / Wolfgang Rudorf -- Lighting and illumination / Wolfgang Rudorf -- Daylighting / Mohamed Boubekri -- [IV.] Interior design and equipment : Refurbishment and building adaptation / Aat Vos -- Shelving / Wolfgang Rudorf, Liliane Wong -- Orientation and wayfinding systems / Michael Franke-Maier -- Book security and RFID / Frank Seeliger.