LIBRARY FOR THE
INFORMATION AGE
The 1998 ACADIA
International Design
Competition
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Letizia Alvarez de Toledo has observed that this vast Library is useless: rigorously speaking, a single volume would be sufficient, a volume of ordinary format, printed in nine or ten point type, containing an infinite number of infinitely thin leaves. (In the early seventeenth century, Cavalieri said that all solid bodies are the superposition of an infinite number of planes.) The handling of this silky vade mecum would not be convenient: each apparent page would unfold into other analogous ones; the inconceivable middle page would have no reverse.This competition involves the design of a library that takes full advantage of information technology while still serving the library's inherited roles in culture and society. Design proposal may incorporate spatial simulation (cyberspaces) and/or physical solutions in meeting the program requirements. The competition is open to both student and professional designers. The jury will review design submissions as web pages over the Internet."The Library of Babel" in "Labyrinths" by Jorge Luis Borges
AIMS
The Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) is organizing this competition with the aim of promoting the use of digital design media and the Internet in architecture.
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