The Library: Text and Context

 

Joseph Clayes III Gallery

The Library: Text and Context

June 5–July 31, 1999

This exhibition opened our 100th anniversary celebration, featuring the 1921 Library Building designed by William Temple­ton Johnson and refurbished by David Raphael Singer. The exhibition also illustrated the Athenaeum building designed by ar­chitect William Lumpkins in 1957, which created a new concert and lecture hall and exhibition space adjacent to the existing library structure. The exhibition illustrated how changes in architectural design reflect the changing role of libraries in the life of a community. As an example, it featured architect Rob Wellington Quigley’s as-yet-unrealized plan for a new downtown central public library for the City of San Diego.