Planning and Design of Library Buildings (Butterworth Architecture Library of Planning & Design) - Hardcover

Thompson, Godfrey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0750615141 ISBN 13: 9780750615143

Publisher: Architectural Press, 1992

Synopsis

A new library cannot be successfully created or an old one replanned until librarian, architect and others form an integrated team. Each must appreciate the other's expertise, and know something of their work. Each must also assess and communicate their own requirements and information needs, sufficiently quantified, at the right stage in development.
This book offers general principles for the basic brief, and step-by-step guidance on how to develop it in greater detail. It is the only book in English (and the only comprehensive one in any language) for those who come to this task for the first time, or who have experience of it but may be involved in new commissioning or redevelopment.

About this title

Synopsis

This guide for planning new buildings or adapting existing ones, explains to the librarian how architects work and to the architect how libraries and their users and services function.

About the Author

Godfrey Thompson was for almost twenty years Guildhall Librarian, Director of Libraries and Art Galleries of the City of London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Architectural Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0750615141
• ISBN 13: 9780750615143
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 328