New Libraries in Old Buildings: Creative Reuse (IFLA Publications)

Petra Hauke; Robert Niess; Karen Latimer

ISBN 10: 3110679515 / ISBN 13: 9783110679519

Published by De Gruyter Saur, 2021

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Hardcover, x + 379 pages, numerous illustrations in text, NOT ex-library. Minor handling wear, book is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- This book focuses on difficulties and opportunities in revitalization of old, derelict or abandoned buildings into a library and investigates the transformation of buildings which originally had a different purpose. The publication shows worldwide best practice examples from different types of libraries in historic environments, both urban and rural, while maintaining a focus on sustainability concerning the architecture and interior design. -- Contents: About IFLA; Preface; Part 1: Creative Building Reuse: Challenges and Responses -- Robert Niess: 1 Exceptional Libraries and Distinctive Architecture: Celebrating Reuse; Santi Romero: 2 Using Historic Buildings to House New Libraries: Prerequisites and Conditions for Successful Revival; Karen Latimer: 3 The Reuse of Buildings: Libraries Behaving Sustainably; Part 2: Case Studies: Public Libraries -- Kim Small & Caroline McLeod: 4 Patyegarang Place with a New Library and Pavilion Revitalizing a Hospital for Sydney's Inner West Community; Rebekah Mayer: 5 A Fire Hall Reused for Windsor Public Library's John Muir Branch in Ontario, Canada; Yang Li: 6 Cultural Reconstruction of a Traditional Chinese Courtyard House into the Suochengli Neighbourhood Library; Robert Niess & Jurgen Radzkowski: 7 Converting and Extending a Historic Fire Station into a Library in Berlin, Germany; Petra Suppel, WiHi Sutter & Angelika Manz: 8 Building Community Through Transforming 17th Century Barns in Kirchzarten, Germany; Michael B. Frank & Canan Kadi: 9 The Mossingen Library Emerges from the Pausa Tonnenhalle in Germany; Ricard Mercade Rogel, Aurora Fernandez Grane & Jordi Gual Nevado: 10 Rehabilitating a Textile Plant for Barcelona's Les Corts Neighbourhood Library; Nina Kuikka: 11 Repurposing a Grocery Store for the Joutsa Public Library in Finland; Jeske Boemaars: 12 Creating a Library from a Locomotive Shed in Tilburg, the Netherlands; Jan van Grunsven, Bart Kellerhuis & Ton van Vlimmeren: 13 Converting the Utrecht Post Office into the Neude Library; Part 3: Case Studies: Academic Libraries -- Paul Buschmann, Anne-Lise Van der Meulen & Raf Van Den Berghe: 14 The Conversion of a Science Institute to a Faculty Library in Ghent, Belgium; Katharina Regulski: 15 A Cattle Market Becomes a University Library in Germany; Michael Knoche, Hilde Barz-Malfatti & Karl-Heinz Schmitz: 16 Integrating New Functions into the Historic Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek in Weimar, Germany; Robert Niess & Frank Seeliger: 17 From Locomotives to Libraries at Wildau Technical University, Germany; Samuel Lespets & Remy Marciano: 18 Reviving the Hexagon for the University Library on the Luminy Campus of Aix-Marseille University; Jorge F. Sosa & Lia Kiladis: 19 The American University of Paris Library in the Student Life and Learning Commons; Anna Raimondi: 20 A Slaughterhouse Pavilion Becomes an Architectural Library in Rome; Gabriella Karl-Johnson: 21 A Library Hovering in the Chapel in Bogota, Colombia; Tara Murray Grove: 22 Transforming a Match Factory into the American Philatelic Research Library in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania; Appendix -- Cletus D. Kuunifaa: Sustainability and Reusing Buildings for Libraries: A Review of Selected Documents; Contributors.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: New Libraries in Old Buildings: Creative Reuse (IFLA Publications)
• Publisher: De Gruyter Saur
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3110679515
• ISBN 13: 9783110679519
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

This book focuses on difficulties and opportunities in revitalization of old, derelict or abandoned buildings into a library and investigates the transformation of buildings which originally had a different purpose. The publication shows worldwide best practice examples from different types of libraries in historic environments, both urban and rural, while maintaining a focus on sustainability concerning the architecture and interior design.

About the Author

Petra Hauke, Humboldt-Univ., Berlin; Karen Latimer, Queen´s University of Belfast and Robert Niess, Chestnutt_Niess Architekten, Berlin.