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Shannon MatternThe New School | New York

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“Archive Wall” @ “Nam June Paik: Global Visionary, Smithsonian InstitutionLearning from the Library

(Without Cracking a Book)

Chrétien Frederic Guillaume Roth, Tree of Knowledge, Encyclopédie; Dewey: Design is the Norm

Étienne-Louis Boullée: Projekt for the National Library in Paris, France, 1785; Reclam’s Universal Library, 1911

Seattle Public Library

Carlo Dolci, St. Catherine Reading a Book, early 17th c.

Spatial Information Design Lab, The Library Project;Alberto Kalach, Biblioteca Jose Vasconcelos, Mexico City

Via AcidLabs

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City Beautiful Civic Center, San Francisco

Smith Campus Plan, Via Shepley Bulfinch

Snohetta: Temple University

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schmidt hammer lassen: University of Aberdeen Library

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios: “The Hive,” Worcester, UK

Andrew Berman Architect

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University of Western Sydney

Penn’s Weigle Info Commons; Writing Center @ Falvey Library, Villanova University

Yi Architects: Stuttgart City Library

Libraries Without Borders’ Ideas Box, a Portable Multi-Media Kit for Refugee and Vulnerable Populations

UNION

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Smith

University of New South Wales’s Help Zone

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Piano Rolls, National Film & Sound Archive, Australia

Henri Labrouste: Bibliothèque Sainte‐Geneviève, Paris, 1850

Labrouste: Bibliothèque nationale, Paris, 1875

NYPL, Scientific American, May 27, 1911; via NYPL Digital Gallery

Louis Kahn: Philips Exeter Library

Seattle Book Spiral, via Seattle Times

TAX arquitectura: Biblioteca Jose Vasconcelos, Mexico City, 2006

MVRDV: Book Mountain, Spijkenisse, Netherlands, 2012

Venturi Scott Brown: Dartmouth’s Rauner Special Collections

Gordon Bunshaft: (SOM) Beinecke Library

Bruno Rainaldi’s Sapiens Bookcase;Albrect Dürer, St. Jerome in His Study, 1514

Thomas Demand, Archive, 1995

Harvard’s metaLab

University of Chicago’s Mansueto Library, Automated Storage

Visualizing RFID, Touch

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Norman Foster: Philological Library, Freie Universität Berlin

Snohetta: Hunt Library,North Carolina State University

HMFH: Roeper School

Shepley Bulfinch: Johns Hopkins, Brody Learning Commons

Joel Sanders Architect: University of Pennsylvania Education

Commons

Norman Foster: Philological Library, Freie Universität Berlin, aka the “Berlin Brain”

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Situ Studio: Maker Space, NY Hall of Science

Harkness Table, Phillips Exeter Academy

Snohetta: Hunt Library Game Lab

Hunt Library Visualization Lab

Hunt Library Immersion Theater

Hunt Library Apple Tech Showcase

The Edge @ Duke University

The Labs @ Carnegie Libraries of Pittsburgh

Chattanooga Public Library’s 4th Floor

Digital Commons @ Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Library, Washington, D.C.

Maker Space @ Chicago Public Library

Tel Aviv Library Co-working Space

Garnet Hertz

Miler Lagos

Epistemic Objects: Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Portable Monuments

My Class Doing “Creative Classification” Exercises @ The Interference Archive & The Reanimation Library

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Event Space @ Penn Special Collections; Auditorium @ University of GA Special Collections

Haverford Special

Collections

Bowdoin & Penn Special Collections Centers

Beinecke Library

Alvar Aalto: Woodberry Poetry Room @ Harvard,

Via Cervin Robinson

My Archives, Libraries + Databases Class @ NYC Municipal Archives

Digital Preservation @ The New Museum

Thaw Conservation Center @ Morgan Library

Mark Dion, The Packet

University of Georgia Special Collections Library Exhibition Spaces

William H. Wright Special Collections Exhibit Area, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library @ Yale

Oberlin Archives

Mark Dion, Library for the Birds of Massachusetts

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