Deconstructing the Kimbell: An Essay on Meaning and Architecture [Paperback]

Michael Benedikt (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 140 pages
• Publisher: SITES (January 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0930829166
• ISBN-13: 978-0930829162
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,971,002 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Kahn and Decon, November 15, 2000

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This review is from: Deconstructing the Kimbell: An Essay on Meaning and Architecture (Paperback)

One of the best essays relating literary deconstruction and architecture, and one of the few i have seen that has such a curious premise- That Louis Kahn was employing many of the methodologies described by derrida and that it is up to us to now discover those methodologies 30 years later. the first 25 pages of the book are a crash course in architectural deconstruction, and those pages alone make the book a must for architecture students, practitioners, and theorists. Also read benedikt's "for an architecture of meaning"- the two books create a strong couple.