People, culture and architecture: a library for Washington D.C.

The ability to record collective experience and learn from it is one of the hallmarks of civilization. The library, in all its forms, has an integral role in this passing of experience; both in how knowledge is stored and how it is retrieved and used. This role is the heart of this thesis investigation. How, in our time, can the library fill these traditional roles? Acknowledging the advent of the information age, what could the design response be? I approached this library as a collection of spatial experiences. Architectural situations are used to relate people to each other, the library environs, and the library media. Though these relationships, and personal interaction, the library answers the call of a new age.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Architecture

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Architecture

Department dc:contributor.department

Architecture

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Year dc:date.issued

1998

Author dc:creator

• Chisamore, Michael

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Piedmont-Palladino, Susan C.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Hunt, Gregory
• Small, Stephen

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53440

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/53440