And filtered light. The top floor of the library, he dreams, might be a wonderful place for reading and thinking, with open escalators leading up to view spots that face the bay. Quigley is searching for a regional style of architecture, one that fits the Southern California identity. High- stress meetings take place around the pool. The architect's challenge is to cling to the freedom and spontaneity possible in such a schizophrenic society.
Civic groups ask for Spanish style.
San Diegans will be watching to see what Quigley and the team of architectural firms design. We get the idea the library will be largely glass and metal, enclosing an immensely flexible area for information storage and dissemination. Flexible because despite huge advances in technology, nobody knows quite how much the library of the next century will be computerized and how much it will depend on books. It will be both. That group represents the first generation of modern libraries.