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American Library Association
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Artificial Illumination
Author_Oriel Prizeman
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Boston Public Library
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British Museum Reading Room
Buffalo Library
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Carnegie Branch Library
Carnegie Libraries
Carnegie UK Trust
Case Study Libraries
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Connecticut State Library
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Cradley Heath
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electric lighting innovation
environmental standards history
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Illuminating Engineering Society
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Pittsburgh Survey
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public building design
Public Library Buildings
Public Library Design
RIBA Library Photograph Collection
social infrastructure development
standardisation of public space environments
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transatlantic architectural exchange
Van Slyck
Young Men
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- ISBN 9781138118300
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 24 May 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Walter Gropius associated standardisation with promoting civilisation in 1935, yet Andrew Carnegie’s influence on the proliferation of pattern book public library plans internationally predated these observations by 50 years. Through the first twenty years of his programme, he supported the erection of almost three thousand public buildings across Britain and America. Though better acknowledged in the US than the UK, this philanthropic contribution radically extended the scope of public provision and remains incomparable in its scale and scope in both nations. Frequently engraved with the self-deifying slogan Let there be Light, open access to navigate these new interior public spaces after work coincided with the first provision of electric light. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, professional groups had sought to specify minimum standards of natural light and air for schools and hospitals. However, the commercial quantification of electricity accelerated the development of a readily comparable vocabulary to prescribe adequate quantities of light for all tasks regardless of their location or orientation. Seeking to gauge the extent of universal values, this book concentrates on the design and performance of a handful of early Carnegie library buildings in Britain and America, identifying their response to contemporary design theory, but also by contrast to their respective local environmental contexts. It examines whether their standards of provision were equitable and if these privately financed public buildings were the first roots of generically standardised public environments to be shared transatlantically. The book also argues that the public library building type can provide a datum for acknowledging the twentieth century legacy of shared international environmental standards for public spaces more broadly.
Oriel Prizeman is an Architect and Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University, UK.
