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A stunning celebration of the architect's residential masterpieces
Louis Kahn (1901-1974), one of the most important architects of the
postwar period, is widely admired for his great monumental works,
including the Kimbell Art Museum, the Salk Institute, and the
National Assembly Complex in Bangladesh. However, the importance of
his houses has been largely overlooked. This beautiful book is the
first to look at Kahn's nine major private houses. Beginning with
his earliest encounters with Modernism in the late 1920s and
continuing through his iconic work of the 1960s and 1970s, the
authors trace the evolution of the architect's thinking, which
began and matured through his design of houses and their interiors,
a process inspired by his interactions with clients and his
admiration for vernacular building traditions. Richly illustrated
with new and period photographs and original drawings, as well as
previously unpublished materials from personal interviews,
archives, and Kahn's own writings, The Houses of Louis Kahn shows
how his ideas about domestic spaces challenged conventions, much
like his major public commissions, and were developed into one of
the most remarkable expressions of the American house.
The untold story of America’s first independent female architect
 Minerva Parker Nichols (1862–1949) was the first American
woman to practice architecture independently. Her specialty was
residential spaces—though her commissions also included an iron
foundry and a macaroni factory—and she was a significant figure
in the design of the emerging railroad towns just outside of
Philadelphia, where she was in active practice from 1883 until
1896. She was also a writer, teacher, and active participant in
several reform movements of the era. Creating an archive in the
absence of one, this book recovers Nichols’s forgotten story to
document a career that spanned seven decades, engaging with
contemporary questions about absences in the historical record, the
challenges of architectural history and preservation, and the need
for new tools and frameworks to address these gaps. A catalogue
raisonné of her completed architectural works includes
illustrations drawn from historical materials as well as newly
drawn plans for five of her most significant designs. Archival
material, paired with new photography documenting more than 30
extant buildings in the Philadelphia and beyond, offer a full and
fully illustrated reconstruction of Nichols’s life and career.
Distributed for the Architectural Archives of the University of
Pennsylvania
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