IIDA Perspective - Fall/Winter 2012 - 48

Design Decoded Reading Rooms

By

Stephen Treffinger

Four years ago, architectural photographer Elizabeth Felicella initiated an ambitious project to document all 215 branches of the New York Public Library system. (In exchange for access, libraries receive copies of her images.) Mostly working in the early morning, before the opening hour, she’s never left a shoot without passing a line of patrons waiting to get in. “The libraries most in touch with their local communities are always the most vital,” she says.

In her line of work, Felicella typically shoots recently completed projects—a process, she says, that can be somewhat detached from the actual life of the place. Shooting the New York libraries, in contrast, “was an opportunity to set aside the conventions of my genre and focus on what actually happens in a space, rather than what is thought will happen.”

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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of IIDA Perspective - Fall/Winter 2012

IIDA Perspective - Fall/Winter 2012
Contents
Contributors
From IIDA
Behind the Issue
Design Dialogue
Getting It, Together
What Clients Want: Product Manufacturers
Paths for the Protégé
Design Decoded
Resources
Behind the Design
Viewpoints
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IIDA Perspective - Fall/Winter 2012 - Contributors
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IIDA Perspective - Fall/Winter 2012 - From IIDA
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IIDA Perspective - Fall/Winter 2012 - Behind the Issue
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IIDA Perspective - Fall/Winter 2012 - Design Dialogue
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IIDA Perspective - Fall/Winter 2012 - Design Decoded
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IIDA Perspective - Fall/Winter 2012 - Resources
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IIDA Perspective - Fall/Winter 2012 - Behind the Design
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