The visual entrance hall

THE ATLAS OF ATLASES

A visual cartography of six fields of orientation.

Begin with the Library’s visual grammar, then move through scales, perspectives and relations in their canonical sequence.

Six Atlas Volumes

Six fields. One cartography.

The route is editorial and explicit. Nothing is ranked or inferred.

The human scale: presence, perception and orientation.

Structures and relations made visible at the smallest scales.

Cycles, scales and landmarks across the celestial field.

Patterns, proportions and formal structures of orientation.

Symbols, artefacts and shared systems across cultures.

Attention, memory and meaning within human understanding.

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