Title & Author:

Bibliotheken bauen : Tradition und Vision = Building for books : traditions and visions / Susanne Bieri, Walther Fuchs.

Publication:

Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, ©2001.

Description:

527 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
"Schweizerische Landesbibliothek."
Includes bibliographical references.
Traditions -- Libraries in the ancient world -- with special reference to Ancient Egypt / Jan Assman -- Women and the written word in medieval Switzerland / Jeffrey F. Hamburger -- The library and its books -- human nourishment / Werner Oechslin -- Boullée seeks "cosmic scale" for his library / Adolf Max Vogt -- On the Warburg humanities library / Dorothée Bauerle-Willert -- Libraries and their people / Jean Roudaut -- The modernity of the Swiss national library, 1798-2001 / Walther Fuchs -- Datascapes : Libraries as information landscapes / Anna Klingmann -- Different libraries -- Different libraries / Thomas Huber -- Visions -- Bonnard & Woeffray VS -- Roberto Briccola TI -- Conradin Clavuot GR -- Galletti & Matter VD -- Christian Kerez ZH -- Miller & Maranta BS -- smarch : Stücheli & Mathys & Waldvogel BE -- Jens Studer ZH -- Building materials.
Each essay appears in German, English, and French.

Summary:

Marks the opening of the extended Swiss National Library.

ISBN:

3764364297 (acid-free paper)
9783764364298 (acid-free paper)

Subject:

Schweizerische Landesbibliothek.
Libraries History.
Library buildings.
Library architecture.
Bibliothèques Histoire.
Bibliothèques (Édifices)
Architecture des bibliothèques.
libraries (buildings)
Libraries
Bibliotheekgebouwen.
Libraries (buildings)

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Bieri, Susanne, 1960-
Fuchs, Walther, 1963-
Schweizerische Landesbibliothek.

Building for books

Holdings:

Location: Library main 217361
Call No.: Z662 .B5 2001
Status: Available