A NEW STATE LIBRARY IN THE CITY OF CURITIBA, BRAZIL

Public libraries are important civic buildings as places that represent and provide access to knowledge to all citizens that seek it. Libraries are also the place where knowledge and history can be sheltered and preserved for future generations in form of books and documents. Being such important structures, public libraries should display an architectural design that incorporates democratic ideals, openness, solidity, artistic excellence, permanency and human proportions as opposed to restrictiveness, brutality, ephemerality and machine-like or humanaverse interface. The city of Curitiba and the State of Parana in Brazil both lack a public library displaying these features.

The Classical Language of Architecture offers a response to that problem as Classical Architectural Design is fundamentally based on common sense, human proportions, beauty, tectonic logic and solidity. Hence, this project has as its main objective, the design of a State Library in Curitiba according to the rules and principles of classical architectural design respecting the local determinants and necessities.