Sainte-Barbe Library ( French : Bibliothèque Sainte-Barbe ) is an inter-university library in Paris , France, that opened in March 2009. It is located in the buildings of the former College of St. Barbara, and has been registered as a historical monument from 9 December 1999.
9-455: The College of St. Barbara was founded in 1460 by Geoffrey Lenormant. Directed by Ernest Lheureux, a pupil of Theodore Labrouste , construction of the Chartière and Valette buildings was undertaken between 1881 and 1884. Dating from 1936, the construction of the Écosse (Scotland) wing by Daniel Lionel and Raoul Brandon was completed in 1939. The transformation of Santa Barbara library is part of
18-462: The Ile de France , with a potential readership of 100,000 students. To this should be added students in preparatory classes to the grandes ecoles. The entire building is accessible to disabled people. All print and electronic collections is accessible to the visually impaired and blind. Antoine Stinco Antoine Stinco (9 January 1934 – 14 February 2023) was a French architect who specialized in
27-645: The U3M (Universities for the Third Millennium) plan, a program for development of higher education and research in the Ile-de-France . Formally established by Decree No. 2004-1121 of 14 October 2004, the inter-university library of St. Barbara is administratively attached to the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle , and a preparatory team worked 60 rue de Wattignies (Paris 12) between 2001 and 2008. In February 2008,
36-520: The construction and renovation of museums and exhibition rooms. Stinco was born in Tunis , Tunisia, and studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the studio of Edouard Albert , Paul Herbé and Jean Prouvé . In 1967 Stinco and fellow-architects Jean Aubert and Jean-Paul Jungmann formed the group "Utopie" along with sociologists Hubert Tonka , Jean Baudrillard and others. Their goal
45-551: The immediate vicinity of the Sainte-Geneviève and Cujas libraries, Sainte-Barbe offers everyone open access to collections on law, economics, social sciences, languages, literature and arts. Its collections, strongly oriented to help students succeed in the beginning of the course, are complementary to those of its illustrious neighbors. Open from 10am to 8pm from Monday to Saturday, the library serves undergraduates and students of Masters courses at public universities in Paris and
54-582: The sculpture department at the Beaux-Art in Paris. He was given the job of renovating the 1968 Maison de la Culture in Grenoble and adding a new wing, with the work completed in 2004. He said that he saw the challenge as "unlocking a building suspended above a green space, without resisting its architecture. I did not want to arrive at a vocabulary that opposed this building which symbolizes Grenoble's 'heroic period'...". Talking of his construction of new buildings at
63-592: The team settled permanently in the premises of the College Sainte-Barbe located at 4 rue Valette (Paris 5), renovated by the architect Antoine Stinco . Open to the public since 9 March 2009, it shares a portion of its premises with the library of the Sorbonne from May 2010 during its renovation. Primarily aimed at undergraduates, the library complements other university libraries in the Latin Quarter. Situated in
72-563: The work of German structural engineer Frei Otto for the bubble-based form and on the philosophy of the Marxist Henri Lefebvre for the commonplace exhibits. Stinco later moved into a more conventional office-based architectural practice. From 1974 to 1976 he participated with GAU (Urban Architecture Group) in a project to renew urban architecture in France. In 1984 he opened his own architectural firm. Between 1993 and 1999 he taught in
81-500: Was to create buildings that would be buoyant, mobile and ephemeral, in contrast to the intert and repressed post-war architecture of the time. The architects organized an exhibition in March 1968 at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris called "Structures Gonflables". Stinco contributed the design for an inflatable mobile exhibition hall in which everyday things would be exhibited, drawing on
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