Louis Kahn: Drawing to Find Out (Hardcover)

Like few others, Louis Kahn cultivated the craft of drawing as a means to architecture. His personal design drawings - seen either as a method of discovery or for themselves - are unique in the twentieth century. Over two hundred - mostly unpublished - drawings by Kahn and his associates are woven together with a lively and informed commentary into an intimate biography of an architectural idea. Unfolding around the iconic project for the Dominican Motherhouse (1965 - 69) the drawings form a narrative which not only reveals the richness and hidden dimensions of this unbuilt masterpiece, but provides compelling insights into Louis Kahn's mature culture of designing. Kahn - long considered an architects' architect" - emerges as a vivid and instructive guide, provoking reflection on questions which continue to remain relevant: on how works are conceived, on how they might be perceived, on how they become part of human experience. Fascinating not only in their beauty, the drawings open a new and stimulating perspective on one of the past century's great architects.

General

Imprint:	Lars Muller Publishers
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	September 2010
First published:	November 2010
Authors:	Michael Merrill
Dimensions:	245 x 306 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	239
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-778221-7
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Individual architects
LSN:	3-03-778221-8
Barcode:	9783037782217

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