id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-11771 Mason, Ellsworth The Beinecke Siamese Twins: An Objective Review of Yale's New Rare Book Library Building. 1965-04-30 14 .pdf application/pdf 10086 425 70 My own experience indicates that library buildings fail most often be- cause architects have a tendency to conceive of ( as they talk of) buildings as spatial sculptures rather than spatial functions, and this often leads to build- ing from the outside in , despite pious protestations to the contrary. The most frightening aspects of the strange world of architects to librarians new at library building are its weird imprecision and radical lack of common sense. cache/crl-11771.pdf txt/crl-11771.txt