Geometries of reading, light of learning
Louis I. Kahn's library at Phillips Exeter
pp. 389-420
in: Robert Kirkbride (ed), Geometries of rhetoric, Berlin, Springer, 2010Abstract
In Louis I. Kahn's library at Phillips Exeter Academy geometries of architecture and media function as parallel rhetorical systems, sometimes complementing, sometimes contradicting one another. This present paper examines how the geometric forms of the library shape patrons' relationships to media in the collection, and how Kahn's elementary geometries have accommodated new media characterized by non-geometric, non-linear forms.