University of Pennsylvania Library : Frank Furness /

By:

Bosley, Edward R

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0714833894

Subject(s): LOC classification:

LD4535 F8B675x1996

Summary: Cloaked in its brilliant mantle of brick, fiery terracotta and red sandstone, the University of Pennsylvania Library stands as the mature-period masterwork of Philadelphia's premier Victorian-era architect, Frank Furness. Conceived in consultation with two eminent library theoreticians, the library plan evolved from practical experience with the inadequacies of nineteenth-century library buildings; the result was a modern factory for learning, a machine for the use and storage of books. Furness's rationalized plan, expressed on the exterior as a bold design, was challenged for decades, and anti-Victorian sentiment threatened the edifice with demolition as late as the 1960s. Renewed appreciation has since come full circle, however, culminating in a dramatic interior restoration by the eminent Philadelphia practice, Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates. Frank Furness's academic monument thus stands today as a defining architectural landmark of Philadelphia.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Reference	Carleton University, AVRC	Richardson Collection - Non CIrculating - Call No. Accompanied by Red Dot	Open-stacks	LD4535.F8B675 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan		16055001146

On jacket flap: University of Pennsylvania Library, Philadelphia, 1888-91; architect, Frank Furness.

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