It was not by chance that Louis Kahn's move into his profession's
spotlight coincided with the crisis of modern architecture:
representing, as his work increasingly did, those aspects of space
which modernism had so ambitiously removed from its program. Kahn's
rethinking of modern architecture's paradigm of space belongs to
his most important contributions to the metier. In tracing the
genesis of the unbuilt project for the Dominican Motherhouse
(1965-69), we are given a close-up view of Kahn at work on a few
fundamental questions of architectural space: seeking the sources
of its meaning in its social, morphological, landscape and
contextual dimensions. This rich and multivalent project opens the
way to a second section, which sheds new light on several of major
works in a timely reappraisal of Kahn's work. The result of
extensive research, illustrated with unpublished archival material
and new analytic drawings, this affordable volume is an
indispensible companion to 'Louis Kahn: Drawing to Find Out.'
General
| Imprint: |
Lars Muller Publishers
|
| Country of origin: |
Switzerland |
| Release date: |
September 2010 |
| First published: |
November 2010 |
| Authors: |
Michael Merrill
|
| Dimensions: |
240 x 166 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
239 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-3-03-778220-0 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Architecture >
Individual architects
|
| LSN: |
3-03-778220-X |
| Barcode: |
9783037782200 |
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