The story, about the architecture of libraries, was also a story about how women design for women. (Maya Lin Studio / Madison Square Park Conservancy)The project is part of Lin’s long-running interest in ecological themes. (Nic Lehoux)Certainly, it would be reductive to say that women design in any particular way because they are women. After a year from which we have emerged lonely and weary, Neilson Library may just be the right architecture at the right time. The Neilson Library, however, offers a site to delve into our shared knowledge and renew our sense of the collective.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 06, 2021 12:03 UTC