SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY

OMAs design for the Seattle Public Libraryone of the firms most heavily anticipated projects to datebegins with a radical rethinking of the very nature of the library. If the library exists today as a threatened sanctuary, it has been done in by its own stubborn reliance on one kind of literacy and its consequent blindness to other emerging forms that increasingly dominate our culture, especially the huge efficiencies and pleasures of visual intelligence. Rather than merely package this traditional institution in a new way, OMA has co...[Leer más]