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Louis I. Kahn

Peter C. Papademetriou

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

Conversations with Students

Louis Kahn

John Lobell

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.

Spirit in the Architecture of Louis I. Kahn

Between Silence and Light

August E. Komendant

18 Years with Architect Louis I. Kahn

A thoughtful selection of the celebrated architect's speeches and writings.

Essential Texts

David Gilson De Long

David Bruce Brownlee

This volume contains six essays addressing different dimensions of architect and teacher Louis J. Kahn's work and his philosophy of architecture. Presentations of his renowned buildings - the Salk Institute, Kimbell Art Museum and others - are accompanied by.

Kahn

Richard Saul Wurman

Gathers Kahn's speeches, writings, interviews, and journal entries, and shares the reminiscences of fellow architects

The Words of Louis I. Kahn

What Will be Has Always Been

The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn

A collection of the eminent architect's writings from some of the most prestigious architectural publications of the last 50 years. Many of the essays are classics in architectural literature, among them "Order is," "Form and being," "Poetics," and "Silence and light," along with excerpts from CIAM in Otterlo, the World Design Conference, and The Sixties: A P/A Symposium on the State of Architecture. One of the three volumes published to coincide with a major retrospective exhibit scheduled to open Oct. 1991 and travel for three years. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Writings, Lectures, Interviews

Louis I. Kahn : silence and light ; [Essay und Hörbuch]

Silence and Light

his work

Robert B. Church III

Louis I. Kahn and the Kimbell Art Museum : Comments on Architecture

Light is the Theme

Jan Hochstim

The Paintings and Sketches of Louis I. Kahn is the first comprehensive presentation and analysis of this great twentieth-century master's art works - his main pursuit for the thirty years before he achieved preeminence in the field of architecture. The charcoal sketches, pastels, watercolors, and oils presented here were made largely on Kahn's travels and vacations in Europe, Canada, and the United States. They range from his experiements in moderne-style illustration, to realism, to the stark and metaphysical abstractions of his later years - including landscapes, building sketches, still lifes, portraits, and cityscapes. Organized chronologically, each work is accompanied by a brief description and analysis. This lavishly illustrated volume provides a catalogue raisonné of all 480 known paintings and sketches by Kahn, and also includes an in-depth critical analysis of the works and their relationship to his architecture, a biographical sketch, an extensive bibliography, and an introduction by leading Kahn authority Vincent Scully. -- from dust jacket.

The Paintings and Sketches of Louis I. Kahn

The fifty-three letters document not only their intense private relationship, but also give a vibrant account of the experience of a brilliant young architect on the cusp of achieving international renown.

The Rome Letters, 1953-1954

Louis Kahn to Anne Tyng

Thomas Leslie

Previously unpublished drawings, construction photographs, and sketches complement new diagrams, illustrating the profound technical poetry of Kahn's buildings."--Jacket.

Building Art, Building Science

Robert McCarter

US architect Louis Kahn (1901–74) was one of the greatest influences on world architecture during the second half of the twentieth century. This monograph focuses on Kahn’s major designs – from the Yale Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut, the Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, Phillips Exeter Library, Exeter, New Hampshire to the National Capital of Bangladesh and the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad – as well as a number of unfinished projects, in order to understand his work and philosophy

Louis I Kahn

Luca Bellinelli

"Accademia di architettura "Mendrisio This publication on the construction of the Kimbell Art Museum by Louis I. Kahn may prove very useful to students, and to anyone interested in gaining further knowledge of the distinctive features of the Kimbell museum. It documents the long and arduous quest that often characterizes a creative process-- even that of a great master such as Louis I. Kahn. The design of the Kimbell Art Museum is the product of extraordinary intuition, and results in a masterly synthesis that solves all the problems posed by the site and the specific purpose of the construction. "i Cataloghi dell'Accademia di architettura "2 The series "I Cataloghi" documents the exhibitions, i.e. reviews undertaken by the Academy of Architecture of the architectural works and events of the 20th century. The initial stages are dedicated primarily to a comparison between the principal figures of this century and contemporary emerging architects. This comparison attempts to trace the link that unites the birth and development of a theory to its subsequent concrete application, along the 'winding path' of research. The exhibitions and their accompanying catalogues aim to offer all readers, not only those attending the Academy, a review of architects and architectural works that have enriched and continue to enrich the discipline of building.

The Construction of the Kimbell Art Museum

Sarah Williams Goldhagen

Sarah Goldhagen Williams

She demonstrates instead that Kahn's architecture is grounded in his deeply held modernist political, social, and artistic ideals, which guided him as he sought to rework modernism into a socially transformative architecture appropriate for the postwar world.".

Louis Kahn's Situated Modernism

Patricia Cummings Loud

The Art Museums of Louis I. Kahn

Urs Büttiker

One of the most powerful aspects of Louis I. Kahn's architectural space is his handling of natural light. Kahn believed that architecture began with the "making of a room," and that "a room is not a room without natural light." Throughout his career he endeavored to bring his interiors to light in the most imaginative ways. Kahn used passionate light and functional light, glaring light and indirect light, warm light and cold light, each working differently in his architecture.

Louis I. Kahn

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