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Geometries of reading, light of learning
Louis I. Kahn's library at Phillips Exeter
pp. 389-420
Abstract
In Louis I. Kahn's library at Phillips Exeter Academy geometries of architecture and media function as parallel rhetorical systems, sometimes complementing, sometimes contradicting one another. This present paper examines how the geometric forms of the library shape patrons' relationships to media in the collection, and how Kahn's elementary geometries have accommodated new media characterized by non-geometric, non-linear forms.
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Kirkbride Robert (2010) Geometries of rhetoric. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 389-420
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0346-0522-9_4
Full citation:
Mattern Shannon (2010) „Geometries of reading, light of learning: Louis I. Kahn's library at Phillips Exeter“, In: R. Kirkbride (ed.), Geometries of rhetoric, Dordrecht, Springer, 389–420.