By Robert Kirkbride (auth.), Robert Kirkbride (eds.)
We take hold of and remodel the realm via interplays of quantification and qualification. The go pollination of geometric and literary figures is deeply embedded in our cognitive conduct, tools of inquiry and the built setting. via time, proposal has mirrored at the seen procedures and items of fabric craft to give an explanation for and teach the invisible workings of the brain. Recursively, fabric craft embodies a practice of splitting principles into express elements and compositional devices for reassembly. even though the mathematical and verbal arts are usually positioned by contrast, human innovations take place a weave of alphanumerics. Mythic parables, geometric proofs, reminiscence arts, poems, algorithms, constructions and towns emerge from the sex of degree and explication. This unique factor of the Nexus community Journal considers architectonic examples of prior, current and power geometries of rhetoric.
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4 Muller also acknowledges how the “specific configuration of built-in furnishings from shelves to desks carefully choreographed with the natural light and registered closely with the human body become a primary source of architectural expression/celebration” [2008: 189]. The geometric forms of the carrels, chairs, shelves, wall panels, and the materials of which they are made, inform the private study experience. We can contrast the warm, textured materials – the wood, carpet, travertine, and brick – of what Kahn called the “served” spaces – the central hall, the reading arcades – with the utilitarian materials – slate floors, metal bookstacks and doors, fluorescent light bulbs – of “servant” spaces like the stacks and stairwells [Wickersham 1989: 147].
For Wickersham, the library’s rhetorical structures get at the “spirit” of the institution: they “dramatize the nature of the library as a storehouse of learning, and…provide a central focus for the Academy’s campus” [1989: 141; italics mine]. The Library committee, of course, recognized this representative potential, too: The quality of a library, by inspiring superior faculty and attracting superior students, determines the effectiveness of a school. No longer a mere depository of books and periodicals, the modern library becomes a laboratory for research and experimentation, a quiet retreat for study, reading and reflection, the intellectual center of the community [Phillips Exeter Academy 1966: 1].
The separation of the outer ring of carrels from the concrete ring of bookstacks symbolically distances these functions: book storage and reading. The distance between the central hall’s concrete volume (which was, at an earlier stage in the design, to be made of brick) and the oak-clad terraces and metal stacks beyond, seems to emphasize the central hall’s framing of the bookstacks. Kohane and Gast suggest, tellingly, that the circular frames present the books as “the ornament of the interior,” as the building’s “treasure” [Kohane 1990: 110; Gast 1999: 132].