Word: bookstacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...L.B.J. library is monumental, with gently curved slabs bracing set-back façades that look a little like a drive-in movie's screen. The interior will be a vast, uncolumned hall enclosing a freestanding glass-enclosed bookstack faced with red-leather-bound presidential papers. The podium beneath it houses a 250-seat lecture hall and a 1,000-seat auditorium equipped with permanent TV installations, the necessity for which Johnson observed when he held a crushed press conference at the Truman library a year...
...leaves the presidency "there is no place I'd rather be than on the campus," was the deanship of a new school of public service to be located in the ancillary building. The lid also contains studies that ring a sunken patio; scholars will descend into the bookstack from above while the public climbs up from below to see the showcases chronicling the Johnsonian...