[Publib] Architecture AL Issue

[Steve Benson]

I'm all for practicality but hate to encourage libraries to be bogged down
with boring, boxy buildings.  Do we really want our buildings to mimic the
librarian stereotype of the lady with a bun, practical dress and shoes?
Beauty in buildings may add impracticality but it can also add inspiration
to all who pass by or enter.  Isn't inspiration something that we aspire to?

No people in the photographs presenting new buildings? What's the fuss?
Anyone who has sold a home knows that you clean and arrange your home in a
fashion that's nothing like how you normally keep it.  You're selling a
house and preparing a salable image rather than presenting YOUR normal life
to potential buyers.  Same with the building shots.  The photographers are
capturing the building and disorder, people and things, only draw your
attention away from the true subject of the photograph.
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