scholarly journals Further Reading: An Analysis of the Public Library and the Implications of Technological Innovation on Architecture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jimmy Gray
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Public Enterprise ◽  
Design Solution ◽  
Entertainment Media ◽  
Architectural Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Organisational Form ◽  
The Way

<p>The past two decades has seen an explosion of electronic media that has changed the way society is structured, and the way in which people interact with one-another. This technological change is forcing the library to question its functional role in society. Books are currently the predominant form of information and entertainment media represented. If this continues the library will struggle to assert its relevance in the future. This thesis analyses the public library, establishing an appropriate distinction between the formalities of the traditional library space and that suitable for a library in the information age. It acknowledges historical influence, and the library user’s role in establishing a truly public enterprise. It builds upon these influences through architectural analysis and experimentation to find one architectural design solution that re-establishes the public library typology. The outcome of this research identifies a strong future for the public library, but states that its physical and organisational form needs to be re-established. It finds that technology and architecture offer new opportunities useful for reinterpreting the typology. The thesis concludes that the implications of digital representation do not limit the public library to virtual space, but rather it can become a space that mediates the new emerging boundaries between digital and analogue by acknowledging the interaction between people.</p>

scholarly journals Further Reading: An Analysis of the Public Library and the Implications of Technological Innovation on Architecture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jimmy Gray
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Public Enterprise ◽  
Design Solution ◽  
Entertainment Media ◽  
Architectural Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Organisational Form ◽  
The Way

<p>The past two decades has seen an explosion of electronic media that has changed the way society is structured, and the way in which people interact with one-another. This technological change is forcing the library to question its functional role in society. Books are currently the predominant form of information and entertainment media represented. If this continues the library will struggle to assert its relevance in the future. This thesis analyses the public library, establishing an appropriate distinction between the formalities of the traditional library space and that suitable for a library in the information age. It acknowledges historical influence, and the library user’s role in establishing a truly public enterprise. It builds upon these influences through architectural analysis and experimentation to find one architectural design solution that re-establishes the public library typology. The outcome of this research identifies a strong future for the public library, but states that its physical and organisational form needs to be re-established. It finds that technology and architecture offer new opportunities useful for reinterpreting the typology. The thesis concludes that the implications of digital representation do not limit the public library to virtual space, but rather it can become a space that mediates the new emerging boundaries between digital and analogue by acknowledging the interaction between people.</p>

scholarly journals The Museum of Me: Architecture and the Publicity of the Private

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Mitchell Wagstaff
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Solution ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Architectural Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Organisational Form ◽  
New Space ◽  
And Control

<p>Both architecture and privacy express ideals of personal, social, and cultural identity. From the development of virtual social environments has emerged new boundaries between the public and private. Consequently, this progression has shifted the historical normalities of privacy. While architecture appears to develop within its own conditions of creating material expressions, it has yet to show awareness of the reality and developments of our contemporary social environments. This thesis addresses the shifting boundary between public and private through an architectural enquiry.  It proposes that the traditional boundary between public and private be re-evaluated in conjunction with contemporary social norms, focusing on the contemporary notion of publicity and control. This thesis explores the design of a public museum as a manifestation of contemporary society. It establishes an appropriate relationship between public and private situating itself as a mediator. It builds upon the influence of the theoretical and conceptual means through an architectural analysis and experimentation to find one architectural design solution that re-configures the public and private boundary.  The outcome of this research reflects a new boundary between public and private; however it states that its spatial and organisational form needs to engage with contemporary society. It finds that online social environments offer new opportunities useful for the re-configuration of boundaries between public and private. This thesis concludes that the new mediation of virtual environments does not limit architecture, but rather presents a new space that mediates and reflects contemporary social interaction.</p>

scholarly journals The Museum of Me: Architecture and the Publicity of the Private

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Mitchell Wagstaff
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Solution ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Architectural Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Organisational Form ◽  
New Space ◽  
And Control

<p>Both architecture and privacy express ideals of personal, social, and cultural identity. From the development of virtual social environments has emerged new boundaries between the public and private. Consequently, this progression has shifted the historical normalities of privacy. While architecture appears to develop within its own conditions of creating material expressions, it has yet to show awareness of the reality and developments of our contemporary social environments. This thesis addresses the shifting boundary between public and private through an architectural enquiry.  It proposes that the traditional boundary between public and private be re-evaluated in conjunction with contemporary social norms, focusing on the contemporary notion of publicity and control. This thesis explores the design of a public museum as a manifestation of contemporary society. It establishes an appropriate relationship between public and private situating itself as a mediator. It builds upon the influence of the theoretical and conceptual means through an architectural analysis and experimentation to find one architectural design solution that re-configures the public and private boundary.  The outcome of this research reflects a new boundary between public and private; however it states that its spatial and organisational form needs to engage with contemporary society. It finds that online social environments offer new opportunities useful for the re-configuration of boundaries between public and private. This thesis concludes that the new mediation of virtual environments does not limit architecture, but rather presents a new space that mediates and reflects contemporary social interaction.</p>

scholarly journals Florentine Convent as Practiced Place: Cosimo de’Medici, Fra Angelico, and the Public Library of San Marco

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 230-271
Author(s):  
Terry-Fritsch Allie
Keyword(s):  
Visual Communication ◽  
Social Relationship ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Historical Scholarship ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Audience ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Way

Abstract By approaching the Observant Dominican convent of San Marco in Florence as a “practiced place,” this article considers the secular users of the convent’s library as mobile spectators that necessarily navigated the cloister and dormitory and, in so doing, recovers, for the first time, their embodied experience of the architectural pathway and the frescoed decoration along the way. To begin this process, the article rediscovers the original “public” for the library at San Marco and reconstructs the pathway through the convent that this secular audience once used. By considering the practice of the place, this article considers Fra Angelico’s extensive fresco decoration along this path as part of an integrated “humanist itinerary.” In this way, Angelico’s frescoes may be understood not only as the result of the social relationship between the mendicant artist and his merchant patron, but also, for the first time in art historical scholarship, as a direct means of visual communication with the convent’s previously unrecognized public audience and an indicator of their political and intellectual practices within the Florentine convent.

scholarly journals The Public Library Reading Guidance Service in the New Media Era

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ji XiuXia
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Reading Instruction ◽  
Public Library ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Public ◽  
Guidance Service ◽  
The People ◽  
The Way

A new media era, network affects all aspects of people’s lives, including the way of reading. Nowadays, more of the people tend to read through the internet. This article starts from the change of the reading instruction service in the new media era, combining the characteristics of web-based reading guidance, here to discuss how to carry out reading instruction in the new media era.

scholarly journals PUSAT BUKU SEBAGAI RUANG PUBLIK DENGAN KONSEP REKREATIF DAN INFORMATIF DI SURAKARTA

Arsitektura ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusna Primastuti ◽  
Rahmadi Nugroho ◽  
Amin Sumadyo
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Functional Programming ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Information Distribution ◽  
Architectural Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come

<p><em>"Books are the windows to the world" is a very common phrase heard. There are so many benefits to be gained from reading the books. From the books, the readers can get information, knowledge, or even a new experience very rewarding. But what is happening now is the public interest of Indonesians is still relatively low. Indonesia’s rank only third from bottom in the ASEAN region. Many people are lazy to go to the libraries and the bookstores because it is considered boring. Therefore, the existence of a book center which is more recreational as a reading place becomes necessary. From</em><em> </em><em>these issues, the problem </em><em>that appears is</em><em> how to design an expression of space and shape of the building </em><em>that </em><em>accommodate</em><em>s</em><em> the activities of libraries to the concept of a recreational and informative to then be translated into the design Book Centre in Surakarta. The method used in the form of architectural design methods, ranging from data collection and then analyzed based on functional programming, programming performance and architectural analysis. Recreational and Informative concept applied to the shape of the building and expression of space in th</em><em>is</em><em> </em><em>Book C</em><em>enter, </em><em>so it can</em><em> bring the design of the building that can accommodate</em><em> </em><em>all the activities related to the book include reading, information, distribution, promotion, socialization, and discussion to fulfill the people’s need of books and also as a public space to create social interaction for them. Book Centre is planned to be more recreational and informative so as can attract people to come and to increase public interest of reading book which is still very low in a pleasant atmosphere by displaying the characteristic of recreational and informative. Book Centre with all the activities that take place in it will be able to provide information that is explanatory, instructive, stimulating, persuasive, and can provide refreshment and comfort for the people, so it will increase the interest in reading books and increase knowledge for the visitors.</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><strong><em>Keywords</em></strong><em>: </em><em>Book Center, Informative, Public Space, Recreational</em><em>.</em></p>

scholarly journals PUSAT BUKU SEBAGAI RUANG PUBLIK DENGAN KONSEP REKREATIF DAN INFORMATIF DI SURAKARTA

Arsitektura ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusna Primastuti ◽  
Rachmadi Nugroho ◽  
Amin Sumadyo
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Functional Programming ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Information Distribution ◽  
Architectural Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come

<p><em>"Books are the windows to the world" is a very common phrase heard. There are so many benefits to be gained from reading the books. From the books, the readers can get information, knowledge, or even a new experience very rewarding. But what is happening now is the public interest of Indonesians is still relatively low. Indonesia’s rank only third from bottom in the ASEAN region. Many people are lazy to go to the libraries and the bookstores because it is considered boring. Therefore, the existence of a book center which is more recreational as a reading place becomes necessary. From</em><em> </em><em>these issues, the problem </em><em>that appears is</em><em> how to design an expression of space and shape of the building </em><em>that </em><em>accommodate</em><em>s</em><em> the activities of libraries to the concept of a recreational and informative to then be translated into the design Book Centre in Surakarta. The method used in the form of architectural design methods, ranging from data collection and then analyzed based on functional programming, programming performance and architectural analysis. Recreational and Informative concept applied to the shape of the building and expression of space in th</em><em>is</em><em> </em><em>Book C</em><em>enter, </em><em>so it can</em><em> bring the design of the building that can accommodate</em><em> </em><em>all the activities related to the book include reading, information, distribution, promotion, socialization, and discussion to fulfill the people’s need of books and also as a public space to create social interaction for them. Book Centre is planned to be more recreational and informative so as can attract people to come and to increase public interest of reading book which is still very low in a pleasant atmosphere by displaying the characteristic of recreational and informative. Book Centre with all the activities that take place in it will be able to provide information that is explanatory, instructive, stimulating, persuasive, and can provide refreshment and comfort for the people, so it will increase the interest in reading books and increase knowledge for the visitors.</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><strong><em>Keywords</em></strong><em>: </em><em>Book Center, Informative, Public Space, Recreational</em><em>.</em></p>

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