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Oak Park Public Library

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“Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in 1899. His father was a doctor and he was the second of six children. Their home was at Oak Park a Chicago suburb”. These words are printed at the beginning of each of the five classic Hemingway works published by Triad / Panther Books in 1977. Ten years before Hemingway’s birth, American architect Frank Lloyd Wright moved to Oak Park to build both his home and his career. The culmination of Wright’s twenty year period practicing in Oak Park was the completion of his first public building, Unity Temple, now a National Historic Monument. Mies van der Rohe commented on the completed building as follows, “This moment is the fountainhead of Modern Architecture”.

Oak Park, USA

2003

nagle hartray | architects

www.naglehartray.com

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Flannery, J.A., Smith, K.M. (2014). Oak Park Public Library. In: Eco-Library Design. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4078-5_8

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