ET216 – An Invitation for All: Transforming the Folger Shakespeare Library
Additional fee, registration required.
What design could do justice in welcoming visitors to the world's largest Shakespeare collection?
You'll see for yourself how the recent renewal and expansion of the Folger Shakespeare library is a bold yet sensitive transformation of the 1932 National Historic Landmark designed by Paul Cret.
This tour will amaze you from the sidewalk, where the project completely reinvents the visitor arrival experience through new gardens, entrances, lobbies, and exhibition spaces. In addition, you'll witness accessibility reimagined, appreciate the technical and regulatory challenges of intensive renovations to historic structures, and experience a visitor experience transformed by both additions and reframed existing spaces.
This is a bus tour.
Alan Karchmer / Otto
What design could do justice in welcoming visitors to the world's largest Shakespeare collection?
You'll see for yourself how the recent renewal and expansion of the Folger Shakespeare library is a bold yet sensitive transformation of the 1932 National Historic Landmark designed by Paul Cret.
This tour will amaze you from the sidewalk, where the project completely reinvents the visitor arrival experience through new gardens, entrances, lobbies, and exhibition spaces. In addition, you'll witness accessibility reimagined, appreciate the technical and regulatory challenges of intensive renovations to historic structures, and experience a visitor experience transformed by both additions and reframed existing spaces.
This is a bus tour.
Alan Karchmer / Otto
Learning Objectives
- Discuss regulatory challenges in designing and implementing modifications to culturally significant historic structures.
- Envision accessibility in an expansive way that extends beyond statutory physical requirements to an emotional and intellectual invitation into historic worlds.
- Evaluate the opportunities and technical complexity of additions to historic structures in highly constrained settings.
- Learn to integrate contemporary architectural form in a historic setting and to develop a respectful, assertive design dialogue across generations.
- Johann Mordhorst, AIA
Principal - KieranTimberlake