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Between silence and light : spirit in the architecture of Louis I. Kahn John Lobell
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks NA 737 .K32 L63 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lobell, John.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974.
- Kahn, Louis I.
- Architecture--Philosophy.
- Architecture.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 120 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
- Edition:
- 2008 ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Shambhala : Distributed in the U.S. by Random House, 2008.
- Contents:
- I. Silence and light: Louis Kahn's words : Joy ; Touch, sight ; Wonder ; Realization, intuition ; The unmeasurable and the measurable ; Knowledge ; Order ; Silence and light ; Light ; Singularity ; Making something ; Form and design ; Place ; Space ; Structure ; The plan ; The garden and the room ; Materials ; The wall, the column ; Institutions ; Architecture ; The architect ; The teacher ; Time beyond time ; Why architecture?
- II. Architecture as spirit
- III. Some of Louis Kahn's buildings : Alfred Newton Richards Medical Research Building ; Salk Institute for Biological Studies ; Salk Institute Community Center ; Sher-E-Bangla-Nagar, master plan ; National Assembly Hall, Sher-E-Bangla-Nagar ; Kimball Art Museum ; Library, Phillips Exeter Academy ; Yale Center fro British Art and Studies
- IV. Appendices : Biographical note on Louis I. Kahn ; Biographical note on John Lobell.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-120).
- ISBN:
- 9781590306048
- 159030604X
- OCLC:
- 269358671
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