From Potential to Kinetic
The library is a frame of reality in the context of fantasy. It is the catalyst which stimulates the intellect and electrifies the imagination ; an embodiement of the whisper and all that is sensuous.
(From competitor's text)
Mr. Swedler's project is both a proposal for an environment that would stimulate the intellect, and a critique of the neutral buildings which the libraries of today have generally come to be. This library is no mere collection of information; it is itself a statement which speaks to our senses and postulates knowledge as a personal secret, as man's ability to understand (stand-under) himself in relation to the order of culture and the order of nature.
The building represents a faith in modern culture and communications, but mediated by the sensuous images that are only accessible to embodied perception and could never be reduced to binary codes or electronic impulses. The very mode of representation, extremely precise and yet softly rendered, speaks of this dichotomy; perhaps the dangerous, but inescapable fine line which the modern architect must tread.
- A. Perez-Gomez
(From official publication)
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