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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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CONTEXT |
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DESCRIPTION |
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| Under construction |
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MATERIALS |
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steel, marble, granite Translucent Vermont marble panels in a granite frame
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LOCATION |
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North America |
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New Haven |
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Yale University - Beinecke Plaza (Wall Street, High Street)
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MAP |
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TYPOLOGY |
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ARCHITECTURE | Buildings for cultural activities
Libraries and media libraries
Education buildings
Libraries, archives and documentation centres
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CHRONOLOGY |
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Project |
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Realisation |
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1960 - 1963 |
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BIBILIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES |
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| Fred A. Bernstein, "Yale's Beinecke Library restored", Architectural Record 9/2016, september 2016, p. 32 |
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| "Yale's iconic Beinecke Library to close for renovation", Architectural Record 8/2014, august 2014, p. 28 |
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"SOM. Gordon Bunshaft. Beinecke Rare Book Library. Yale University. 1959-63", Casabella 761-762, dicembre 2007-gennaio 2008/december 2007-january 2008 [Biblioteche oggi], pp. 30-43
Nicholas Adams, "Le Beinecke Libray: un manifesto architettonico / Beinecke Library as an Architectural manifesto", Casabella 761-762, dicembre 2007-gennaio 2008/december 2007-january 2008 [Biblioteche oggi], pp. 31-42 (30-43), 168-170 |
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| Yukio Futagawa, GA 03 Library, Tokyo 2006, pp. 14-17 |
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 Stephen Parks (ed.), The Beinecke Library of Yale University, Yale University Press, New Haven 2003 |
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| Casabella 655, aprile/april 1998, p. 93 |
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| Ezra Stoller (photo), "Through the Viewfinder", Architectural Record 5/1997, may 1997, "Features" p. 152 (147-152) |
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| Arnold Newman (photo), Paolo Costantini, "Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library", Casabella 644, aprile/april 1997, pp. 80-81 |
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ADDITIONS AND DIGRESSIONS |
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| Copy of the Gutenberg Bible kept in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library |
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CLIENT |
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Yale University
Edwin J. Beinecke, Frederick W. Beinecke, Walter Beinecke |
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Gordon Bunshaft
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill - SOM |
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Florence Knoll
Marcel Breuer |
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CREDITS |
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Photos © Carol M. Highsmith, Henry M. Trotter, VillageHero, Gunnar Klack, Lauren Manning
Videos © Engineering Discoveries, Yale Campus, WTNH News8
Courtesy of Library of Congress, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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