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1970s, sees a dominant
shift from plan to section.
This diversion clearly
demonstrates the influence
of structuralist concepts
arriving from the Technion’s
acclaimed teachers Al
(Alfred) Mansfeld and Alfred
Neumann, felt in the firm’s
work since the mid-1960s.
The period’s global energy
crisis was no less of a
factor in the plan, as were
the geographic-climatic
conditions of the desert
campus. These forced the
architects to utilize natural
light in a sophisticated
manner, leading it into the
depths of the library space.

The monolithic
appearance of the early
libraries gradually
gave way to a complex

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