This comprehensive and innovative study presents the fundamental features of Louis I. Kahn`s architecture and describes his key buildings. It is based on drawings prepared specially for this book and previously unpublished photographs and has been described as the "most rigorous and precise study so far attempted in the German language" Kurt W. Forster. Previously available in hardcover, it is now being published in softcover ensuring that it will be accessible to all who are interested in the legacy of Kahn`s work. »... I believe that this book should be read by all students of Kahn.« The Architect`s Journal
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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A very precise and engaging study of Louis Kahn's buildings!,
By Spyridon Kaprinis (Thessaloniki , GREECE.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Louis I. Kahn: The Idea of Order (Paperback)
Klaus-Peter Gast's book provides a geometric analysis of Louis Kahn's buildings, as well as an in-depth analysis of Lou's personal way of building with deep respect for the great architectural periods of the past.The author's geometric drawings/diagrams & text - coupled with brilliant photographs and Lou's drawings - take Louis Kahn's buildings/structures beyond simple tracing and observation:this important book takes us on a fascinating journey through Louis I. Kahn's intelligible and organic geometrical equilibrium, to the structurally ordered whole and the powerful & enigmatic monumentality of Lou's masterpieces.A serious and carefully crafted publication that requires commitment and visual attention.A truly monumental book!
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This review is from: Louis I. Kahn: The Idea of Order (Paperback)
In essence, Louis Kahn was and remains a Beaux Arts architect, or at least a modernist version of one. He was trained in the Beaux Arts method and was especially familiar with the teachings of John F. Harbeson and other American Beaux Arts masters.Kahn's most common organizational trait was axial and his larger buildings show clear evidence of French-style 'enfilade' planning. This much is clear from Kahn's own drawings. While this book acknowledges these underlying planning geometries, it stretches the basis of its study trying to find the same systems evident in Kahn's elevational treatments. Although Kahn would have studied Beaux arts proportional systems it is not evident from his own drawings or sketches that he tried to apply these devices or compositional systems in his designs. Indeed his writings suggested that he intuited the results more than constructed them around a geometric framework. Thus portions of the book can only be regarded as the author's speculative attempts to 'discover' Kahn's geometries after the fact rather than present them as a factual statement of the architect's intent. Still, the book offers a new way to consider Kahn's works. In an age where so much of so-called architecture is no more than capricious form-making, the book is a welcome reminder that discipline and rigour have always been an important part of real design.
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The first building Louis I. Kahn planned and realized independently was a community centre for the "Ahavath Israel Congregation"; it is still standing in roughly its original state, and functioned in its intended role until 1982. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
figurative geometry, diagonal quality, vertical symmetrical axis, double axial symmetry, dormitory figure, ground plan figure, dormitory structure, sanitary block, administration wing, entrance square, ground plan structure, grid track, realized architecture, exterior outline, sanitary area, symmetrical axes, grid field, special dormitories, external outline, lower outline, classroom area, starting square, wall tracks, diagonal symmetry, plan analysis Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Golden Section, Kahn Collection, Trenton Bathhouse, New York, Indian Institute of Management, University of Pennsylvania, Esherick House, Unitarian Church, Richards Building, Salk Institute, Fisher House, Louis Kahn, Weiss House, New Haven, Kimbell Art Museum, National Institute of Design, Yale University, National Capital of Bangladesh, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, International Style, Medical Research Building, Das Problem, Robert Venturi, Rudolf Wittkower, The Yale Architectural Journal New!
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The first building Louis I. Kahn planned and realized independently was a community centre for the "Ahavath Israel Congregation"; it is still standing in roughly its original state, and functioned in its intended role until 1982. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
figurative geometry, diagonal quality, vertical symmetrical axis, double axial symmetry, dormitory figure, ground plan figure, dormitory structure, sanitary block, administration wing, entrance square, ground plan structure, grid track, realized architecture, exterior outline, sanitary area, symmetrical axes, grid field, special dormitories, external outline, lower outline, classroom area, starting square, wall tracks, diagonal symmetry, plan analysis Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Golden Section, Kahn Collection, Trenton Bathhouse, New York, Indian Institute of Management, University of Pennsylvania, Esherick House, Unitarian Church, Richards Building, Salk Institute, Fisher House, Louis Kahn, Weiss House, New Haven, Kimbell Art Museum, National Institute of Design, Yale University, National Capital of Bangladesh, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, International Style, Medical Research Building, Das Problem, Robert Venturi, Rudolf Wittkower, The Yale Architectural Journal New!
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- National Capital of Bangladesh by Louis I Kahn on page 99, page 105, and page 109
- Robert Venturi: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Robert Venturi in Front Matter, page 188, and Back Matter
- The International Style by Henry Russell Hitchcock on page 15, page 194, and Back Matter
- The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays by Colin Rowe in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism by Rudolf Wittkower in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- Le Corbusier: Paris-Chandigarh by Klaus-Peter Gast in Front Flap, page 101, and Back Flap
- Günter Behnisch (Studio Paperback) by Peter Blundell Jones in Back Matter
- Cesar Pelli: Buildings and Projects 1988-1998 by Michael J. Crosbie in Back Flap
- Louis I. Kahn's Trenton Jewish Community Center: Building Studies 6 by Susan G. Solomon in Back Matter
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