New Media Library, New Orleans, Louisiana

Date of Sketch: August 21, 2009

On April 2, 1800, Beethoven began to transform the sound of symphonic music with the first performance of his First Symphony.  But as familiar as it seems today, it must have been both surprising and puzzling to the first audiences. So it is with libraries which are evolving at the pace of technological change to become informational cornucopias. The New Media Library, contains everything from books to theaters, transmitting knowledge in an electrochromic glass environment which can be darkened or lightened, modified to support the transfer of information.