The House of Books - The Metamorphosis of the Library Space (Antiquity)

One of the longest prevailing building types in history were library buildings. The need for such buildings emerged in parallel with the appearance of writing, when the emission of various documents raised the problem of their preservation, storage, and accessibility. This need occasioned the construction of particular sites for this purpose, which have extended and changed in time until they reached the sophisticated and functional structures built today.

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