A library is not just a collection of books, but also the buildings that house them. As varied and inventive as the volumes they hold, such buildings can be much more than the dusty, dark wooden shelves found in mystery stories or the catacombs of stacks in the basements of academia. From the great dome of the Library of Congress, to the white façade of the Seinäjoki Library in Finland, to the ancient ruins of the library of Pergamum in modern Turkey, the architecture of a library is a symbol of its time as well as of its builders’ wealth, culture, and learning.
Architectural historian James Campbell and photographer Will Pryce traveled the globe together, visiting and documenting over eighty libraries that exemplify the many different approaches to thinking about and designing libraries. The result of their travels, The Library: A World History is one of the first books to tell the story of library architecture around the world and through time in a single volume, from ancient Mesopotamia to modern China and from the beginnings of writing to the present day. As these beautiful and striking photos reveal, each age and culture has reinvented the library, molding it to reflect their priorities and preoccupations—and in turn mirroring the history of civilization itself. Campbell’s authoritative yet readable text recounts the history of these libraries, while Pryce’s stunning photographs vividly capture each building’s structure and atmosphere.
Together, Campbell and Pryce have produced a landmark book—the definitive photographic history of the library and one that will be essential for the home libraries of book lovers and architecture devotees alike. 图书馆不仅仅是藏书，还是藏书的建筑。尽管这些建筑的体量多种多样，别出心裁，但它们可能比神秘故事中那些布满灰尘、漆黑一片的木质书架，或者学术界地下室里那些堆积如山的地下墓穴要好得多。从国会图书馆的大圆顶，到芬兰 seinäjoki 图书馆的白色立面，再到现代土耳其古老的帕伽马图书馆遗址，图书馆的建筑是其时代的象征，同时也是其建造者的财富、文化和学识的象征。建筑历史学家詹姆斯 · 坎贝尔和摄影师威尔 · 普赖斯一起周游世界，参观并记录了超过八十个图书馆，这些图书馆体现了许多不同的思考和设计图书馆的方法。图书馆: 世界历史》是第一部讲述世界各地图书馆建筑故事的书籍之一，它以一卷书的形式讲述了从美索不达米亚到现代中国，从书写开始到现在的历史。正如这些美丽而引人注目的照片所揭示的，每一个时代和文化都对图书馆进行了重新改造，塑造它以反映他们的优先权和当务之急ーー反过来又反映了文明本身的历史。坎贝尔的权威但可读的文本叙述了这些图书馆的历史，而普赖斯的令人惊叹的照片生动地捕捉了每个建筑的结构和气氛。坎贝尔和普赖斯共同出版了一本具有里程碑意义的书——《图书馆通用摄影史》 ，这本书对爱书者和建筑爱好者的家庭图书馆都是必不可少的。
基本信息 出版社 : University of Chicago Press; 第 Illustrated 版 (2013年10月14日) 语言 : 英语 精装 : 320页 ISBN-10 : 022609281X ISBN-13 : 978-0226092812 商品重量 : 2.32 kilograms 尺寸 : 31.7 x 24.79 x 3.48 cm
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