STACKS, PLATFORMS &

INTERFACES
A Field Guide to Information Spaces

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The New School
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Code and Clay
Dirt and Data
5000 Years of
Urban Media

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Sound + Space
Mrs. Andersons First Grade Class
AIA Guide to New York City, 1969
Jane [Butzner] Jacobs, Cue Magazine, 1940
Field Guide to Algorithms
 ray

Georg Ehrets engravings Florence Merriams Birds of Village and Field

for Linnaeuss Systema
Naturae
James Corner
Via Spencer Schaffner
Marble Fairbanks, James Lima, Leah Meisterlin
Julie Mehretu
Simon Denny
Aleksandra Domanovi
Theodore de Bry, 1596; Paul Otlet, 1937; Marshall McLuhan, 1967
D. Jovanovic, K. Shah, M. Yablonina
The Zone
Logistics
Lebbeus Woods
Jorinde Voigt
Sites of
Exception
William Larson
Emma McNally
Cornelius Cardew
Peabody Library, Baltimore
Andrew DeGraff, on Borges
Ryerson University, Snhetta + Zeidler Partnership
SAD!
Kits of Parts @ Re-Envisioning Branch Libraries Design Study, 2014
PLATFORM

INFRASTRUCTURE

ZONE
PLATFORM

Sol Lewitt
Eric Freedman re: DPLA; David Weinberger; MIT
Chattanooga Public Librarys 4th Floor
Maker Space @ Chicago Public Library
Dokk1, Aarhus, schmidt hammer lassen
Hunt Library, NCSU, Snhetta
Hunt Library Game Lab
Hunt Library Visualization Lab
Hunt Library Immersion Theater
Hunt Library Apple
Tech Showcase
Temple University Library, Snhetta
 Get it?
Its a parody.

Garnett Hertz
Harkness Table, Phillips Exeter Academy
Epistemic Objects: Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Portable Monuments
Metropolitan New York Library Council
INFRASTRUCTURE
Paul Otlet
The Protocol Stack
Framework for Information Literacy, University of Buffalo Libraries
Follow the $$ + Power
( via Bloomberg)
Via Jonathan Gray
Hunt Library
Sawyer Library, Williams College, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
University of Utah
Paul Otlet
Penns Weigle
Info Commons;
Writing Center @
Falvey Library,
Villanova
Temple Writing Center; Graduate Scholars Studio
Grand Valley State Knowledge Market
@ Duke University
Philological Library, Freie Universitt Berlin, Norman Foster
aka the Berlin Brain
Joseph Kosuth
Joseph Kosuth
Re-Envisioning Branch Libraries, UNION
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Len Ferrari
Rachel Whiteread
Lebbeus Woods
Foucault
Skokie CIVIC LAB
 Haverford
Special Collections
Woodberry Poetry Room @ Harvards Lamont Library
My Archives, Libraries + Databases Class @ NYC Municipal Archives
Digital Preservation @ The New Museum
 University of Georgia Special Collections;
Emory University Manuscript, Archives + Rare Books Library
William H. Wright
Special Collections
Exhibit Area, Haas Arts
Library @ Yale
 Woodberry Poetry Room;
Bowdoin Special Collections
Oberlin Archives
Beinecke
Library
Brody Learning Commons, Johns
Hopkins, Shepley Bulfinch
University of Penn. Education
Commons, Joel Sanders
The mmuseumm, a gallery in a freight elevator | The Uni Project modular library
Musashino Art University Library, Sou Fujimoto;
Media Library, Thionville, France, Dominique Coulon
Smith College
Libraries Without Borders Ideas Box for Refugee and Vulnerable Populations
Leonardo
Magrelli
Kyle Bean
Thank
you.