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This library engages a dialogue between the historically based texts of an established civilization and the ephemeral information systems of a society living in the shadow of the unknown. The texts which will remain could well be an embodiement of hope for the unfortunate who may read them.
(From competitor's text)
Architecture is much more than the design of buildings. Historically, architects have been concerned with the symbolic order of man. Traditional libraries (ie., Renaissance or Baroque libraries) had always embodied knowledge as a finite orbis doctrinoe, both in the order of the architecture and in the iconographic program. Mr. Lander's library deals with the reality of an "open" information society in the age of apocalypse. This is a library for the best informed civilization ever, yet one marked by total absurdity in its ethical and moral values. Mr. Lander's Architecture reminds one about the number of beds in Swiss hospitals, always empty, one for every citizen awaiting nuclear war, while billions have nowhere to sleep. The hope is in the world itself, in the realization that knowledge is what man needs "then and now", to live a coherent life, and that only an embodiment of knowledge thus understood makes a library worthwhile.
- A. Perez-Gomez
(From official publication)
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