'Très Grande Bibliothèque (Very Big Library)' Exhibition

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OMA. Conceptual drawing of the façade of the Very Big Library. 1989 © Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA)

On view now until September 9, the ‘Très Grande Bibliothèque (Very Big Library)’ Exhibition at the Canadian Center for Architecture (CCA) presents materials produced by OMA, in response to an international competition launched by France’s then president, Francois Mitterrand, in 1989 to design the new bibliotheque nationale de France. Curated by Rem Koolhaas and Clement Blanchet of OMA, the concept of their proposal resided in the notion of the library spaces being excavated as voids from a ‘solid cube’ containing the archives. The concept offered great architectural freedom, with the public spaces (or voids) being liberated from the constraints of a predeterminded structure or form. More information on the exhibition after the break.

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Cite: Alison Furuto. "'Très Grande Bibliothèque (Very Big Library)' Exhibition" 20 May 2012. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/235388/tres-grande-bibliotheque-very-big-library-exhibition> ISSN 0719-8884

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