Completed in 1972 in Exeter, United States. In 1965 Louis I. Kahn was commissioned by the Phillips Exeter Academy to design a library for the school. The Academy had been planning the new...
Louis Kahn’s Exeter Library (1969-1971) masterfully upends the traditional layout of libraries. At the time, most well-regarded libraries encircled a single, grand, high-ceilinged reading room with many individual floors of bookshelves (Figure 1). While the communal reading room impressed and aw...
Exeter Library 建筑 公共建筑 美国 1945-01-01 1965年,Louis Isadore Kahn受Phillips Exeter学院委托为学校设计一座图书馆。学院已经规划了15年的新图书馆,但一直对聘请的建筑师和委员会提出的设计感到失望。学院非常清楚他们想要什么样的建筑:与学校的乔治亚风格建筑相匹配的砖制外观,以及具有理想学习环境的内部。Lou...
Louis Isadore Kahn 对砖的使用和他对自然光线的关注符合学院对图书馆的具体原则,因此委托他来设计图书馆。 In 1965 Louis I. Kahn was commissioned by the Phillips Exeter Academy to design a library for the school. The Academy had been planning the new library for fifteen years but were consistently ...