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Author |
: George H. Marcus |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0300171188 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780300171181 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Houses of Louis Kahn by : George H. Marcus
A stunning celebration of the architect's residential masterpieces Louis Kahn (1901-1974), one of the most important architects of the postwar period, is widely admired for his great monumental works, including the Kimbell Art Museum, the Salk Institute, and the National Assembly Complex in Bangladesh. However, the importance of his houses has been largely overlooked. This beautiful book is the first to look at Kahn's nine major private houses. Beginning with his earliest encounters with Modernism in the late 1920s and continuing through his iconic work of the 1960s and 1970s, the authors trace the evolution of the architect's thinking, which began and matured through his design of houses and their interiors, a process inspired by his interactions with clients and his admiration for vernacular building traditions. Richly illustrated with new and period photographs and original drawings, as well as previously unpublished materials from personal interviews, archives, and Kahn's own writings, The Houses of Louis Kahn shows how his ideas about domestic spaces challenged conventions, much like his major public commissions, and were developed into one of the most remarkable expressions of the American house.
Author |
: Wendy Lesser |
Publisher |
: Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages |
: 424 |
Release |
: 2017-03-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780374713317 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0374713316 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis You Say to Brick by : Wendy Lesser
Born in Estonia 1901 and brought to America in 1906, the architect Louis Kahn grew up in poverty in Philadelphia. By the time of his mysterious death in 1974, he was widely recognized as one of the greatest architects of his era. Yet this enormous reputation was based on only a handful of masterpieces, all built during the last fifteen years of his life. Wendy Lesser’s You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn is a major exploration of the architect’s life and work. Kahn, perhaps more than any other twentieth-century American architect, was a “public” architect. Rather than focusing on corporate commissions, he devoted himself to designing research facilities, government centers, museums, libraries, and other structures that would serve the public good. But this warm, captivating person, beloved by students and admired by colleagues, was also a secretive man hiding under a series of masks. Kahn himself, however, is not the only complex subject that comes vividly to life in these pages. His signature achievements—like the Salk Institute in La Jolla, the National Assembly Building of Bangladesh, and the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad—can at first seem as enigmatic and beguiling as the man who designed them. In attempts to describe these structures, we are often forced to speak in contradictions and paradoxes: structures that seem at once unmistakably modern and ancient; enormous built spaces that offer a sense of intimate containment; designs in which light itself seems tangible, a raw material as tactile as travertine or Kahn’s beloved concrete. This is where Lesser’s talents as one of our most original and gifted cultural critics come into play. Interspersed throughout her account of Kahn’s life and career are exhilarating “in situ” descriptions of what it feels like to move through his built structures. Drawing on extensive original research, lengthy interviews with his children, his colleagues, and his students, and travel to the far-flung sites of his career-defining buildings, Lesser has written a landmark biography of this elusive genius, revealing the mind behind some of the twentieth century’s most celebrated architecture.
Author |
: Michael Merrill |
Publisher |
: Lars Muller Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 496 |
Release |
: 2020-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3037786442 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783037786444 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Louis Kahn: The Importance of Drawing by : Michael Merrill
An astounding treasury of drawings and plans from one of the 20th century's greatest architects, offering unprecedented insight into his design process "The importance of a drawing is immense, because it's the architect's language," famed architect Louis Kahn, one of the most significant architects of the 20th century, told his masterclass in 1967. While much of his built work has been heavily studied, this publication chooses instead to focus on Kahn's prolific arsenal of drawings and plans, some of which were never realized. The Importance of a Drawingprovides an in-depth look into the subtleties of Kahn's designs, featuring incisive analysis from architectural experts and over 600 high-quality reproductions of work by Kahn and his associates. A testament to the architect's meticulous craft, this volume is an essential addition to the library of established designers as well as students of architecture. Louis Kahn(1901-74) was an Estonian-born American architect who worked in Philadelphia for the majority of his life. Inspired early in his career by European medievalism and later the ruins of much older civilizations, Kahn was notable for his ability to meld the modernist tendencies of his time with the classical poise of ancient monuments. Some of his major designs include the National Parliament House in Dhaka, Bangladesh and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California. Some of Kahn's unrealized projects, such as the Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island, have since been constructed posthumously. Kahn taught at Yale School of Architecture from 1947 to 1957 and then at the University of Pennsylvania until his death.
Author |
: Louis I. Kahn |
Publisher |
: Princeton Architectural Press |
Total Pages |
: 98 |
Release |
: 1998-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 156898149X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781568981499 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (9X Downloads) |
Synopsis Louis Kahn by : Louis I. Kahn
First ed. published as: Louis I. Kahn: talks with students. 1969.
Author |
: Robert McCarter |
Publisher |
: Phaidon Press |
Total Pages |
: 528 |
Release |
: 2022-02-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1838663045 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781838663049 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Louis I Kahn by : Robert McCarter
A thoroughly updated and redesigned edition of McCarter's esteemed monograph on the globally-revered modern master.0Louis I Kahn was one of the greatest influences on post-WWII world architecture, and in the twenty-first century his significance has skyrocketed. In this revised, expanded, and redesigned edition of Phaidon's bestselling and critically-acclaimed monograph, Robert McCarter explores how Kahn redefined Modern architecture - and why his work remains a fundamental source today. Extensively illustrated, this comprehensive overview includes both built and unbuilt projects, as well as a project realized forty years after Kahn's death - New York City's Four Freedoms Park.
Author |
: Carter Wiseman |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 294 |
Release |
: 2007-02-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0393731650 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780393731651 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Louis I Khan Beyond Time and Style by : Carter Wiseman
The first in-depth biographical study of the brilliant but elusive architect who fundamentally redefined twentieth-century architecture. Now ranked with Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe, Louis I. Kahn brought a reverence for history back into modern architecture while translating it into a uniquely contemporary idiom. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews with colleagues, coworkers, clients, and family members and illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs, this book documents the uniquely American rise of a poor immigrant to the pinnacle of the international architectural world. It illuminates the richly diverse personal relationships Kahn had with such clients as Jonas Salk and Paul Mellon, and the romantic entanglements that mystified even those closest to him. While celebrating the genius of Kahnís art, the book provides an invaluable portrait of the man who created it.
Author |
: Louis I. Kahn |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 194180635X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781941806357 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (5X Downloads) |
Synopsis Louis Kahn by : Louis I. Kahn
Louis Kahn's parliament building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a rarely seen architectural masterpiece that influenced generations of architects and designers, can now be appreciated in this beautifully crafted volume of recent photographs by Grischa Rueschendorf.
Author |
: Sarah Williams Goldhagen |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 316 |
Release |
: 2001-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0300077866 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780300077865 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Louis Kahn's Situated Modernism by : Sarah Williams Goldhagen
She demonstrates instead that Kahn's architecture is grounded in his deeply held modernist political, social, and artistic ideals, which guided him as he sought to rework modernism into a socially transformative architecture appropriate for the postwar world.".
Author |
: Louis I. Kahn |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0393731138 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780393731132 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Louis Kahn by : Louis I. Kahn
A thoughtful selection of the celebrated architect's speeches and writings.
Author |
: Louis I. Kahn |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1978 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:406142997 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Louis I. Kahn by : Louis I. Kahn