Louis Isadore Kahn (1901-1974) treated each building like a temple.
Across the United States, in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and
Israel, his designs combined the sleek, utilitarian surfaces of
modernism with a devotion to geometric forms and a reverence for
natural light that suffused his stuctures with a monumental and
breathtaking spirituality. This essential introduction brings
together 17 of Kahn's most important buildings across his cultural,
governmental, religious, and residential repertoire. Plans, views,
descriptions, and quality photographs trace the context and
development of each project, while an introductory essay explores
Kahn's unique architectural ideology and his legacy as one of the
most important 20th-century American architects since Frank Lloyd
Wright. Through Kahn masterworks, such as the National Assembly
Building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, or Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth,
Texas, we'll explore Kahn's his "back to basics" grammar inspired
by ancient sites in Italy, Greece, and Egypt; and his unique
vocabulary of mass, void, and light that suffused the International
Style with a near-celestial luminescence. About the series Born
back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the
best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in
TASCHEN's Basic Architecture series features: an introduction to
the life and work of the architect the major works in chronological
order information about the clients, architectural preconditions as
well as construction problems and resolutions a list of all the
selected works and a map indicating the locations of the best and
most famous buildings approximately 120 illustrations (photographs,
sketches, drafts, and plans)
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