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Genevieve Micheal Brawne. Henri Labrouste, Inventor Of The Modern Library, Gets A MoMA Retrospective. Can you imagine the New York Public Library, or the Boston Public Library, or, really, any iconic library without its reading room?
Those high-ceilinged, cavernous sanctuaries lined with reference books and decorated with painted murals? Well, believe it or not, someone actually is credited with creating the reading room—and by extension the modern library. His name: Henri Labrouste, a French architect whose experiments with new materials and light, as well as his utopian ideals, had a profound impact on not just 19th-century architecture but also intellectual life and thought.