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Show Offers UlEty And Beauty new library whether you're awed, or stimulated, or humbled or exalted you can be sure that you won't remain noncommittal. The structure demands response. And probably, your most prominent promin-ent reaction will be an intense, uncontrollable un-controllable desire to rip down the entire campus and start all over again. Tuition hike, anyone? P ' ill I. . I ! ' ' f ! f from logical, scaled precision to the glowing vitality of real people. Although basically maintaining the external simplicity, the study areas are rounded out and enriched by the introduction of warm textures tex-tures and colors: polished, finegrained fine-grained mahogany, burlap-etched " glass, coffee-brown bricks and cushioned furniture in tawny autumn au-tumn shades of rust, mustard, cinnamon, cin-namon, burnt orange, wheat and olive. The carpeting is a velvety fusion of moss green, gold and bronze in a houndstooth pattern. Striking Contrasts The new library is a structure of striking and delightful contrasts from the cold, exquisite dignity of the exterior to the earthy warmth of the interior from the solid massiveness of pillars and planes to the freedom of open space and gleaming sheets of glass from the opulence of watershed marble to the rustic honesty of naked brick from rare feiry-veined Mexican onyx to the masculine understatement un-derstatement of slatted mahogany. Finally, and perhaps most striking, strik-ing, is the contrast between the purity, the discipline and the dynamic dy-namic strength of the structure with the orangey brick and bathroom-blue siding of Orson Spencer Hall, and the sooty-gray hulk of the old Fieldhouse a paradox comparable to that of the magnificent magnifi-cent Acropolis gleaming in the sun above the greasy rubble of Athens' slums. Start All Over? Whatever your reaction to the By SYLVIA KRONSTADT Chronicle Feature Writer You feel utterly ridiculous approaching ap-proaching it in levis, a beat-up tur-tleneck, tur-tleneck, and a navy pea coat as in appropriate as wearing a plaid flannel bathrobe to a presidential reception. The initial impression of the new University Library is obviously not one of casual Westernness : of pork and beans or scrub oak or copper pits. It is anything but warm or beckoning or homey. The effect is not of an invitation but of a challenge. Impact Of Exterior The impact is sudden and violent an uncompromising and powerful power-ful arrangement of bold straight lines, clean parallels, severe planes and sharp, unsoftened angles as though it had sliced its way out of the earth and stretched itself into an effortless, soaring lack of friction fric-tion with the sky its integrity derived de-rived not from subtle suggestion but from unequicoval statement of fact. You are pulled between two intense in-tense urges: one for strong, free motion, the other for a reverent stillness. Standing alone in the dynamic dy-namic solitude, you don't know whether whe-ther to recite some stirring Shakespearean Shake-spearean soliloquoy, or to give a joyous Tarzan call, or to think of death, or to dance. You are caught in the tension of controlled energy ener-gy surging dunes of earth haeve around the structure like ocean . waves balconies jutt outward below be-low massive concrete planes angular an-gular stairways jam into free space. It is moving, alive and exciting. ex-citing. Greek Drama Yet, in the same moment, the library projects the austere drama ot a Greek temple a peaceful- So this is a library? Atrium area is "heart" of the building, from which students can go up or down two floors. ness and softness created from rhythmic symmetry, pure, logical order, sensuous texture and the sunwarmth of clear spaces. Inside, the continuous floating staircase is as elegant as one in a colonial mansion. The sweeping white terrazzo floors of the entry hall provide the spatial freedom of an open courtyard, and the rippling cream-colored travertine marble walls are, at the same time, rich and unpretentious. From the center cen-ter of the building, the atrium, you can look up two floors to the shimmering effect of "leaf light" in the ceiling. Interior Enriched The transition from exterior to interior is comparable to the movement move-ment in Greek sculpture from the ideal to the real a movement |