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Reasons to reinvent the Midcentury academic library

DLR Group's Interior Design Leader Gretchen Holy, Assoc. IIDA, shares the idea that a designer's responsibility to embrace a library’s history, respect its past, and create an environment that will serve student populations for the next 100 years.



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sponsored | Ted Goldstein, Atlas Tube | Jun 17, 2021

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Paladino | May 26, 2021

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Stantec | May 21, 2021

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