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Louis I. Kahn - Exposed Concrete and Hollow Stones (Paperback)
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Louis I. Kahn - Exposed Concrete and Hollow Stones (Paperback)
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Through sheer determination and courage, Kahn has researched the
nature of concrete in the form of precast, cast in place or blocks.
Each of his renowned works in exposed concrete, such as the Yale
Art Gallery, the Richards Laboratories, the Bath House, the Salk
Institute, the National Assembly, the Kimbell Museum, the Exeter
Library and the Yale Center for British Art, is itself an important
chapter in the history of architecture for the exploration into
concrete's formal expression, beyond the lessons of Le Corbusier.
Kahn's obsession with concrete's fabrication processes, the
formwork and the mix-design is systematically examined in two
volumes. They illustrate Kahn's vision using documents that have
never been revealed in other essays, drawing heavily from original
sketches, plans, specifications, worksite photographs, and
correspondences with collaborators, engineers, technicians and
contractors. The first volume Exposed Concrete and Hollow Stones
focuses on the first ten-year period of Kahn's research on
concrete. Moving through the many construction systems experienced
by Kahn, from the discovery of exposed concrete in the form of
beton brut at the Yale Art Gallery, to the precast and
poured-in-place techniques, to the values of joint, growth and
ornament, the work culminates in the reconstruction of the artistic
and technical characteristics of two great worksite, the Richards
Laboratories and the First Unitarian Church and School. The second
volume, Towards the Zero Degree of Concrete, covers the following
fourteen years and leads the reader along Kahn's path to the true
'nature of concrete', focusing on his main techniques and
discoveries such as the 'liquid stone' of the Salk Institute, the
'smooth finish' at Bryn Mawr and the concept of 'monolithic' at the
Yale Center for British Art.
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