University of Pennsylvania Library : Frank Furness
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University of Pennsylvania Library : Frank Furness
（Architecture in detail）
Phaidon, 1996
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University of Pennsylvania Library, Philadelphia, 1888-91 : architect: Frank Furness
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Photography: Mark Fiennes
Drawings: Venturi, Scott Brown and associates, John Hewitt
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Cloaked in its brilliant mantle of red brick, fiery terracotta and red sandstone, the University of Pennsylvania Library stood, at its dedication on 7th February 1891, as the mature-period masterwork of Philadelphia's premier Victorian-era architect, Frank Furness. Conceived by Furness in consultation with two eminent library theoreticians, the library plans evolved from practical experience with the fundamental inadequacies of 19th-century institutional library buildings. The result was a modern factory for learning - a machine for the use and storage of books. Furness's highly rationalized plan, expressed on the exterior as bold, ecclesiastical design, was challenged for decades, and anti-Victorian sentiment threatened the edifice with demolition as late as the 1960s. Renewed appreciation has since come full circle, however, culminating in a dramatic interior restoration and rehabilitation by the eminent Philadelphia architect, Robert Venturi.
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