Visitors to Edinburgh over the next three months may be interested in
browsing a small exhibition / display that has just been put up in the
Maps Reading Room at the National Library of Scotland.
Housing Paper Worlds displays architectural designs and 11 new maps of
Edinburgh by Dundee University architecture students in collaboration
with the National Library of Scotland. The fourth-year students have
designed a new Cartographic Institute in Edinburgh, based on two
currently vacant sites. Striking and original artwork, designs and plans
for the building are displayed, setting the sites in context. The 11
maps were created to develop a cultural, economic, historical,
architectural, and geographic understanding of the city, and these
insights have informed the designs for the new institute in the heart of
Edinburgh's Old Town.
The display is free and open to the public during reading room opening
hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 9.30-17.00; Wednesday:
10.00-17.00; Saturday: 9.30-13.00
Duration: May 30, 2011 - August 26, 2011
Further details: http://www.nls.uk/exhibitions#institute
Chris Fleet
Senior Map Curator
National Library of Scotland
159 Causewayside
EDINBURGH
EH9 1PH
United Kingdom.
Tel. 0131 623 3973
Fax. 0131 623 3971
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
View maps website: http://maps.nls.uk
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