Reader's guide to The notebooks and drawings of Louis I. Kahn : "a profound scrapbook" / consulting editor, Richard Saul Wurman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wurman, Richard Saul, 1935- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974--Criticism and interpretation.

Kahn, Louis I.

Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974--Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.

Physical Description:

117 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 39 cm + 1 volume (unpaged : illustrations (some color) ; 39 cm)

Other Title:

Profound scrapbook : reader's guide to The notebooks and drawings of Louis I. Kahn

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, NY : Designers & Books ; New Haven, CT : Yale Center for British Art, [2021]

Summary:

"The publication of this 2021 facsimile edition of The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn (1962), and accompanying Reader's Guide to The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn, originated as a 2021 project conceived by Designers & Books, and serves to remind us in the twenty-first century of the timeless principles that Kahn stood for and advocated in the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

[v. 1.] Reader's guide to the notebooks and drawings of Louis I. Kahn. Introduction / Richard Saul Wurman ; Architecture and Lou are one / Richard Saul Wurman in conversation with Dan Klyn ; Miscellany / selected by Richard Saul Wurman ; My father the artist / Sue Ann Kahn ; "Non-ending design process" : a prehistory of Louis Kahn's Archive / William Whitaker and Allison Rose Olsen ; Kahn at MoMA / Peter Reed ; The power of architecture : Kahn in Europe / Jochen Eisenbrand ; Reviewing the reviews : a write-up of write-ups on The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn / Dan Klyn ; Discovery through connection and separation / Alexandra Tyng ; Louis Kahn did architecture like Albert Einstein did physics / David Rothstein ; A poet remembers Lou Kahn / C.K. Williams ; The American Institute of Architects Twenty-five Year Award : five buildings by Louis I. Kahn ; Introduction / by Peter Exley ; Yale University Art Gallery / John Walsh ; Salk Institute for Biological Studies / Jonathan Salk ; Phillips Exeter Academy Library / Gail G. Scanlon & Thomas M. Hotaling ; Kimbell Art Museum / W. Mark Gunderson ; Yale Center for British Art / Courtney J. Martin ; Kahn at work / Moshe Safdie ; A teacher of architects : four architecture school deans on Kahn in the classroom ; Words from winners of the Louis I. Khan Award ; Kahn Korman House : living Lou / Larry Korman ; Four Freedoms Park : the miracle of Kahn's FDR Memorial / Gina Pollara ; March 17, 1974 / Paul Goldberger ; Closing time / Nathaniel Kahn

[v. 2]. The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn (Facsimile)

Notes:

Issued in slip case.

Includes bibliographical references.

"This book is a collection of drawings by a master architect--Louis I. Kahn ... The text is based largely on transcriptions of Lou Kahn's unpublished speeches during the past three years ... There also are selections from his Voice of America broadcast, Universal Atlas Cement Company folder, the Museum of Modern Art booklet on the Richards Medical Research Building as well as an introduction written for this book"--Accompanying unpaged volume, note from the Editors.

Related Work:

Guide to: Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974. Notebooks and drawings of Louis I. Kahn.

ISBN:

9780300263848

0300263848

OCLC:

1257317247