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This is the first CD-ROM for architects that explores a master work by Louis Kahn. Combining a large number of exterior and interior still photos with sound recordings, video clips, and animated drawings, the reader experiences the building in a unique way while learning about Kahn's design ideas.
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"The Library at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, NH, has won the Twenty-Five Year award from the American Institute of Architects. The award is bestowed annually on an American work of architecture that has proved its merit over a life of at least a quarter of a century. … The Exeter Library, which opened in 1971, was designed by Louis I. Kahn (1901–74). Kahn … accomplished something no one else had quite figured out how to do. He made modern buildings that achieved the timeless, monumental presence of the great works of the past. … Kahn respected books. ‘Nobody ever paid the price of a book; they pay only for the printing,’ he once said. Exeter is his attempt to embody, in brick and teak and marble and concrete, the essence of a particular kind of institution: the house of books, the library." —Robert Campbell, The Boston Globe, January 11, 1997 This groundbreaking CD-ROM will bring you as close to the Library at Philips Exeter Academy as you can get without actually visiting it. The disc includes:
- video clips of the library’s exterior and interior
- animated plans and sections
- hundreds of exterior and interior color photographs
- audio explanations by the author
- archival audio recordings of Kahn’s lectures
- illustrated descriptions of five other projects by Kahn
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Many people believe that architecture is the essentially deterministic conjunction of program, legalistic issues, and technique. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Reference Figure, Exeter Library, Phillips Exeter Academy, Louis Kahn, New York, Kahn Collection, Schematic Sketch New!
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Many people believe that architecture is the essentially deterministic conjunction of program, legalistic issues, and technique. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Reference Figure, Exeter Library, Phillips Exeter Academy, Louis Kahn, New York, Kahn Collection, Schematic Sketch New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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This book cites 5
books:
- What Will Be Has Always Been by Rizzoli on page 16
- American Buildings and Their Architects: Volume 5: The Impact of European Modernism in the Mid-Twentieth Century (American Buildings and Their Architects) by William H. Jordy on page 43
- Between Silence and Light : Spirit in the Architecture of Louis I. Kahn by John Lobell on page 43
- American Buildings and Their Architects: Volume 2: Technology and the Picturesque: The Corporate and the Early Gothic Styles (Oxford Paperbacks) by William H. Pierson Jr. on page 43
- NYC Access (Access Guides) by Richard Saul Wurman on page 16
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