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The Houses of Louis Kahn

Author : George H. Marcus,William Whitaker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 0300171188

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The Houses of Louis Kahn by George H. Marcus,William Whitaker Pdf

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 Richly illustrated with new and period photographs and original drawings, as well as previously unpublished materials from personal interviews, archives, and Kahn's own writings, The Houses of Louis Kahn shows how his ideas about domestic spaces challenged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.

Louis Kahn

Author : Louis I. Kahn,Richard Saul Wurman,Kazi Khaleed Ashraf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 194180635X

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Louis Kahn by Louis I. Kahn,Richard Saul Wurman,Kazi Khaleed Ashraf Pdf

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.

Louis I Kahn

Author : Robert McCarter
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1838663045

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Louis I Kahn by Robert McCarter Pdf

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.

Louis I. Kahn

Author : Louis I. Kahn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:406142997

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You Say to Brick

Author : Wendy Lesser
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374713317

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You Say to Brick by Wendy Lesser Pdf

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.

Louis I Khan Beyond Time and Style

Author : Carter Wiseman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0393731650

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Louis I Khan Beyond Time and Style by Carter Wiseman Pdf

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.

Louis Kahn's Situated Modernism

Author : Sarah Williams Goldhagen,Sarah Goldhagen Williams,Louis I. Kahn
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300077866

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Louis Kahn's Situated Modernism by Sarah Williams Goldhagen,Sarah Goldhagen Williams,Louis I. Kahn Pdf

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.".

Louis Kahn

Author : Michael Merrill
Publisher : Lars Muller Publishers
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3037782218

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Louis Kahn by Michael Merrill Pdf

Like few others, Louis Kahn cultivated the craft of drawing as a means to architecture. His personal design drawings - seen either as a method of discovery or for themselves - are unique in the twentieth century. Over two hundred - mostly unpublished - drawings by Kahn and his associates are woven together with a lively and informed commentary into an intimate biography of an architectural idea. Unfolding around the iconic project for the Dominican Motherhouse (1965 - 69) the drawings form a narrative which not only reveals the richness and hidden dimensions of this unbuilt masterpiece, but provides compelling insights into Louis Kahn's mature culture of designing. Kahn - long considered an architects' architect" - emerges as a vivid and instructive guide, provoking reflection on questions which continue to remain relevant: on how works are conceived, on how they might be perceived, on how they become part of human experience. Fascinating not only in their beauty, the drawings open a new and stimulating perspective on one of the past century's great architects.

Louis I. Kahn

Author : Vincent Scully
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0807603902

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Louis Kahn: The Importance of Drawing

Author : Michael Merrill
Publisher : Lars Muller Publishers
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3037786442

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Louis Kahn: The Importance of Drawing by Michael Merrill Pdf

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.

18 Years with Architect Louis I. Kahn

Author : August E. Komendant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Architecture, Modern
ISBN : UOM:39015049101218

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18 Years with Architect Louis I. Kahn by August E. Komendant Pdf

Louis I. Kahn

Author : Per Olaf Fjeld,Emily Randall Fjeld
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610756815

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Louis I. Kahn by Per Olaf Fjeld,Emily Randall Fjeld Pdf

Louis I. Kahn: The Nordic Latitudes is a new and personal reading of the architecture, teachings, and legacy of Louis I. Kahn from Per Olaf Fjeld’s perspective as a former student. The book explores Kahn’s life and work, offering a unique take on one of the twentieth century’s most important architects. Kahn’s Nordic and European ties are emphasized in this study that also covers his early childhood in Estonia, his travels, and his relationships with other architects, including the Norwegian architect Arne Korsmo. The authors have gathered personal reflections, archival material, and other student work to offer insight into the wisdom that Kahn imparted to his students in his famous masterclass. Louis I. Kahn: The Nordic Latitudes addresses Kahn’s legacy both personally and in terms of the profession, documents a research trip the University of Pennsylvania’s Louis I. Kahn Collection, and confronts the affiliation of Kahn’s work with postmodernism.

Between Silence and Light

Author : Louis I. Kahn,John Lobell
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781590306048

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Between Silence and Light by Louis I. Kahn,John Lobell Pdf

In the development of contemporary architecture, no one has had a greater influence than Louis I. Kahn, whose many buildings include the Salk Institute, the Yale Study Center, and the Exeter Library. He is remembered, however, not only as a master builder, but also as one of the most important and creative thinkers of the twentieth century. For Kahn, the study of architecture was the study of human beings, their highest aspirations and most profound truths. He searched for forms and materials to express the subtlety and grandeur of life. In his buildings we see the realization of his vision: luminous surfaces that evoke a fundamental awe, silent courtyards that speak of the expansiveness and the sanctity of the spirit, monumental columns and graceful arches that embody dignity and strength. Updated with a new preface, this classic work is a major statement on human creativity, showing us Louis Kahn as architect, visionary, and poet.

Louis Kahn

Author : Michael Merrill
Publisher : Lars Muller Publishers
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 303778220X

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Louis Kahn by Michael Merrill Pdf

It was not by chance that Louis Kahn's move into his profession's spotlight coincided with the crisis of modern architecture: representing, as his work increasingly did, those aspects of space which modernism had so ambitiously removed from its program. Kahn's rethinking of modern architecture's paradigm of space belongs to his most important contributions to the metier. In tracing the genesis of the unbuilt project for the Dominican Motherhouse we are given a close-up view of Kahn at work on a few fundamental questions of architectural space: seeking the sources of its meaning in its social, morphological, landscape and contextual dimensions. This rich and multivalent project opens the way to a second section, which sheds new light on several of major works in a timely reappraisal of Kahn's work. The result of extensive research, illustrated with unpublished archival material and new analytic drawings, this affordable volume is an indispensible companion to Drawing to Find Out.

Louis Kahn

Author : Carter Wiseman
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780813947501

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Louis Kahn by Carter Wiseman Pdf

The man who envisioned and realized such landmark buildings as the Salk Institute, the Kimbell Art Museum, and the National Assembly complex in Bangladesh, Louis Kahn was born in what is now Estonia, immigrated to America, and became one of the towering figures in his adopted country’s built world. His works are unmistakable in their elegance, monolithic power, and architectural honesty. Written by Carter Wiseman, one of Kahn’s most respected commentators, this book offers a succinct, accessible examination of the life and work of one of America’s greatest architects. It traces the influence of his immigrant origins, his upbringing in poverty, his education, the impact of the Great Depression, and the arrival of Modernism on his life and work. Finally, it provides insight into why, as the legacy of many of his contemporaries has receded in importance, Kahn’s has remained so durably influential. Louis Kahn: A Life in Architecture provides the best concise introduction available to this singular life and achievement.