Libraries are in a funny position at this particular point in time. The more grandiose technocrats are declaring that books will become a thing of the past and libraries will switch to CDs and DVDs for all print. The Director of the San Francisco library so believed this notion that he threw away something like a million or two books, some priceless. (He got fired for that.) However, trying to design for changes that are inevitable and unknown has got to be one big headache. It's an easy thing to be a Monday morning quarterback, but it was by no means easy to give clear direction to Pelli.. It's also one thing to remodel Hosmer or unmuddle St. Paul PL and quite another to start from scratch.
Whether Pelli was Argentinean or extra terrestrial had nothing to do with anything.
WizardMarks, Central
md wrote:
But Cesar Pelli does have offices in New York and Connecticut and he is very urbane, charming, sophisticated and Argentinian/European.
A runner up in the library design competition, Jeff Scherer, of Meyer, Scherer and Rockcastle, worked on the Stillwater Public Library, the St. Paul Public Library, the Hosmer Library, the Detroit Lakes Public Library and others around the country and has won awards for it ... but gosh darnit he just wasn't European enough.
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