Exeter Library

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In 1965 Louis I. Kahn was commissioned by the Phillips Exeter Academy to design a library for the school. “No longer a mere depository of books and magazines, the modern library becomes a laboratory for research and experimentation, a quiet retreat for study, reading and reflection, the intellectual center of the community.… Fulfilling needs of a school expected eventually to number one thousand students, unpretentious, though in a handsome, inviting contemporary style, such a library would affirm the regard at the Academy for the work of the mind and the hands of man.” People enter the 111′x111′ square library from the ground floor and climb up a grand set of stone stairs to the first floor. Coming up the last step onto the first floor one can immediately perceive the relationship of reference area, circulation desk, and book stacks. text from archdaily.com

Architect:   Louis Kahn Location:   Exeter, New Hampshire Year:         1967-72

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Completed in 1972, the Library at Phillips Exeter Academy is an inspiring manifestation of Louis Kahn's approach to creating space through the honest application of material and use of rational geometry, balanced by an awareness of human scale and the integral role of natural light.  From this interrelationship of form and experience, Kahn creates an architecture that is both humanist and monumental- a juxtaposition that enables a sense of place and timelessness, within a modernist context.

Completed in 1972 in Exeter, United States. In 1965 Louis I. Kahn was commissioned by the Phillips Exeter Academy to design a library for the school. The Academy had been planning the new...

Image 2 of 15 from gallery of AD Classics: Exeter Library (Class of 1945 Library) / Louis Kahn. Photograph by Flickr - Ed Brodzinsky

Phillips Exeter Academy Library - Class of 1945 arch : Louis Kahn (1965)

Image 11 of 15 from gallery of AD Classics: Exeter Library (Class of 1945 Library) / Louis Kahn. Photograph by Flickr - Ed Brodzinsky

The Phillips Exeter Academy Library in Exeter, New Hampshire, U.S., with 160,000 volumes on nine levels and a shelf capacity of 250,000 volumes, is the larg ...

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D607_010 23/09/2011 : Exeter, NH, Main St: library at Phillips Exeter Academy (Louis I. Kahn, 1965-71)

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Image 10 of 15 from gallery of AD Classics: Exeter Library (Class of 1945 Library) / Louis Kahn. Photograph by Flickr - Ed Brodzinsky