The Architects Louis Kahn

Author : John Lobell
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781580935289

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Louis Kahn by John Lobell Pdf

For everyone interested in the enduring appeal of Louis Kahn, this book demonstrates that a close look at how Kahn put his buildings together will reveal a deeply felt philosophy. Louis I. Kahn is one of the most influential and poetic architects of the twentieth century, a figure whose appeal extends beyond the realm of specialists. In this book, noted Kahn expert John Lobell explores how Kahn's focus on structure, respect for materials, clarity of program, and reverence for details come together to manifest an overall philosophy. Kahn's work clearly conveys a kind of "transcendent rootedness"--a rootedness in the fundamentals of architecture that also asks soaring questions about our experience of light and space, and even how we fit into the world. In Louis Kahn: Architecture as Philosophy, John Lobell seeks to reveal how Kahn's buildings speak to grand humanistic concerns. Through examinations of five of Kahn's great buildings--the Richards Medical Research Building in Philadelphia; the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla; the Phillips Exeter Academy Library in New Hampshire; the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth; and the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven--Lobell presents a clear but detailed look at how the way these buildings are put together presents Kahn's philosophy, including how Kahn wishes us to experience them. An architecture book that touches on topics that addresses the universal human interests of consciousness and creativity, Louis Kahn: Architecture as Philosophy helps us understand our place and the nature of well-being in the built environment.

Author : Louis I. Kahn,Richard Saul Wurman,Kazi Khaleed Ashraf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 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.

Author : George H. Marcus,William Whitaker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 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.

Author : Wendy Lesser
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,7 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.

Author : Louis I. Kahn,Dung Ngo
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1998-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 156898149X

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Louis Kahn by Louis I. Kahn,Dung Ngo Pdf

First ed. published as: Louis I. Kahn: talks with students. 1969.

Author : Robert Hughes
Publisher : New Word City
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612308463

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The Architects: Louis Kahn by Robert Hughes Pdf

Louis Kahn was one of the most important architects of the twentieth century, hailed as a master of materials, but also of light. "The plan of a building," he once said, "should be read like a harmony of spaces created in light." Here, in this essay by the legendary art critic Robert Hughes, is Kahn's story.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783791387505

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The Essential Louis Kahn by Anonim Pdf

This photographic tour of every one of the buildings designed solely by Louis Kahn represents the architect's greatest accomplishments. This book focuses on over twenty buildings that were designed solely by Louis Kahn. From his native city of Philadelphia to the heart of Bangladesh, Kahn's architecture reflected his fascination with science, mathematics, history, and nature. Striking new interior and exterior photographs by esteemed architectural photographer Cemal Emden reveal the characteristic features of Kahn's aesthetic: juxtaposed materials, repetition of line and shape and geometric precision. Also evident is the way Kahn's designs flourish in a variety of settings--religious, governmental, educational, and residential. The book gives close attention to Kahn's most iconic buildings, including Erdman Hall at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania; the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad; the Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in Dhaka, Bangladesh; and the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut, as well as a cluster of residences he designed in the Philadelphia area. Chapter openers written by architecture professor Caroline Maniaque, an introduction by academic Jale Erzen and an extensive chronology by academic Zekiye Abali, as well as a selection of Kahn's most insightful statements complete this book, which allows for a rich understanding of Kahn's architectural ingenuity.

Author : Louis I. Kahn,John Lobell
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 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.

Author : Mateo Kries,Jochen Eisenbrand,Stanislaus von Moos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architects
ISBN : UCSD:31822038683348

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Louis Kahn by Mateo Kries,Jochen Eisenbrand,Stanislaus von Moos Pdf

The American architect Louis Kahn (1901 - 1974) is regarded as one of the great master builders of the twentieth century. With complex spatial compositions, an elemental formal vocabulary and a choreographic mastery of light, Kahn created buildings of archaic beauty. As the first comprehensive publication on this architect in 20 years, the book �Louis Kahn - The Power of Architecture� presents all of his important projects. It includes essays by prominent Kahn experts and an expansive illustrated biography with many new facts and insights about Kahn's life and work. In a number of interviews, leading architects such as Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, Peter Zumthor and Sou Fujimoto underline Kahn's significance in today's architectural discourse. An extensive catalogue of works features original drawings and architectural models from the Kahn archive. The compendium is further augmented by a portfolio of Kahn's travel drawings as well as photographs by Thomas Florschuetz, which offer completely new views of the Salk Institute and the Indian Institute of Management.

Author : Carter Wiseman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,5 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.

Author : Alexandra Tyng
Publisher : Wiley-Interscience
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1984-02-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015040320536

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Beginnings by Alexandra Tyng Pdf

Comprehensively traces the development of Louis I. Kahn's philosophy of architecture from its beginnings in the 1930s to Kahn's death in 1974. The author, Kahn's daughter, provides a unique presentation of biographical information, portions of letters and writings, speeches, photos, and other material inaccessible to other writers. Includes diagrams collected from published and unpublished sources. Shows how Kahn's personality and background contributed directly to his philosophical principles.

Author : Carter Wiseman
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 49,8 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.

Author : Robert McCarter
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 48,6 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.

Author : Louis I. Kahn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1252615640

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The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn by Louis I. Kahn Pdf

Author : David Bruce Brownlee,David Gilson De Long
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015040326392

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Louis I. Kahn by David Bruce Brownlee,David Gilson De Long Pdf

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