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It is possible to admire without reservation Kahn's moving and pellucid architecture, but to be less enthusiastic about his sometimes recondite lectures and writings. On the other hand, every new insight into the great man's thinking about design should be welcome. This attractive little book offers a lecture, "White Light, Black Shadow," previously published in a 1986 anthology edited by Richard Saul Wurman, a questions-and-answer session with Rice University architecture students, and appreciations of Kahn by Lars Lerup and Michael Bell. -- Interior Design
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Louis Kahn (1901-74) is one of the most renowned practitioners of international modernism, on a par with Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe in the extent of his influence on subsequent generations of architects. Kahn sought the spiritual in his powerful forms, and encouraged his students to seek the essential nature of architecture. His Philadelphia-based practice was responsible for such masterpieces as the Richards Medical Research building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Yale Art Gallery extension in New Haven, Connecticut; the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas; the government complex at Dhaka, Bangladesh; and the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California.
This title, in the same format as our highly successful Rem Koolhaas: Conversations with Students, contains a little-known essay by Kahn on his sources of inspiration, an interview with the architect on his working methods and his vision for the future of the profession, and writings on Kahn by Michael Bell and Lars Lerup, contributors to our title Stanley Saitowitz.
Louis Kahn: Conversations with Students is the latest title in the series from the Rice University School of Architecture.
This title, in the same format as our highly successful Rem Koolhaas: Conversations with Students, contains a little-known essay by Kahn on his sources of inspiration, an interview with the architect on his working methods and his vision for the future of the profession, and writings on Kahn by Michael Bell and Lars Lerup, contributors to our title Stanley Saitowitz.
Louis Kahn: Conversations with Students is the latest title in the series from the Rice University School of Architecture.
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Since that time when Lou Kahn spoke to Rice architecture students in the spring of 1968, a year before the first edition of this text, three decades have passed, essentially a generation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Since that time when Lou Kahn spoke to Rice architecture students in the spring of 1968, a year before the first edition of this text, three decades have passed, essentially a generation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Bretton Woods, Lou Kahn, United States, University of Pennsylvania, World War New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan by Rem Koolhaas on page 75
- What Will Be Has Always Been by Rizzoli on page 93
- The Liberal Hour by John Kenneth Galbraith on page 93
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- Louis I. Kahn's Trenton Jewish Community Center: Building Studies 6 by Susan Solomon on 5 pages
- Between Two Towers: Drawings of the School of Miami by Vincent Scully in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Environmental Tradition: Studies in the Architecture of the Environment by Dr Dean Hawkes in Back Matter
- Cracking the Codes: An Architect's Guide to Building Regulations by Barry D. Yatt in Back Matter
- Integrated Buildings: The Systems Basis of Architecture by Leonard R. Bachman in Back Matter
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