Regale, Magazine, Copyright. Der Neubau der Library of Congress

De Gruyter eBooks · 2023

• Political Science
• Computer Science
• Political Science

Stacks, Shelves, and the Law: Restructuring the Library of Congress

Grey Room · 2021-02-01 · 1 citations

February 01 2021 Stacks, Shelves, and the Law: Restructuring the Library of Congress Zeynep Çelik Alexander Zeynep Çelik Alexander Zeynep Çelik Alexander is an architectural historian and Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. She is the author of Kinaesthetic Knowing: Aesthetics, Epistemology, Modern Design (University of Chicago, 2017) and coeditor of Design Technics: Archaeologies of Architectural Practice (University of Minnesota, 2020). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Zeynep Çelik Alexander Zeynep Çelik Alexander is an architectural historian and Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. She is the author of Kinaesthetic Knowing: Aesthetics, Epistemology, Modern Design (University of Chicago, 2017) and coeditor of Design Technics: Archaeologies of Architectural Practice (University of Minnesota, 2020). Online Issn: 1536-0105 Print Issn: 1526-3819 © 2021 by Grey Room, Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.2021Grey Room, Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Grey Room (2021) (82): 6–29. https://doi.org/10.1162/grey_a_00314 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Search Site Citation Zeynep Çelik Alexander; Stacks, Shelves, and the Law: Restructuring the Library of Congress. Grey Room 2021; (82): 6–29. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/grey_a_00314 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentAll JournalsGrey Room Search Advanced Search This content is only available as a PDF. © 2021 by Grey Room, Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.2021Grey Room, Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Writing Architectural History: Evidence and Narrative in the Twenty-First Century

2021 · 3 citations

• History
• Visual arts
• Aesthetics

1919: Der Wendepunkt, an dem die Geschichte keine Wendung mehr nahm

100 · 2021-08-25

SCANNING:

University of Minnesota Press eBooks · 2020-01-21

Managing Iteration: The Modularity of the Kew Herbarium

2020-04-08

How does architecture accommodate iteration? Architectural modernism’s answer to the question has been modularity: from the Crystal Palace to attempts at prefabrication, modular architecture in modernist historiography has been explained as an arrangement necessitated by industrialized mass production. This essay attempts to decouple modularity and industrialization by focusing on the “modular” architecture of the Kew Herbarium. First set up in 1853, the Kew Herbarium in the Royal Botanic Gardens grew exponentially in the course of the nineteenth century by replicating the simple cabinet architecture invented by the Swedish naturalist Linnaeus. Because this kind of herbarium consisted of loose sheets of paper upon which dried and flattened plant specimens were affixed, not only could specimens now be sent to and received from colonies all over the world but also the contents of the botanical storehouse could be arranged and rearranged as needed. The ingenuity of this modular architecture, then, was that it served as the clearinghouse of an agricultural bureaucracy by facilitating the exchange of plants, knowledge, and equipment across the globe.

INTRODUCTION:

University of Minnesota Press eBooks · 2020 · 2 citations

• Psychology

5. Designing: Discipline and Introspection at the Bauhaus

2019-12-31

2. Looking: Wölfflin’s Comparative Vision

2019-12-31

Evidence + Narrative in Architectural History

2018-08-15