Louis I Kahn
Phaidon Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7148-4045-1 (ISBN)
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US architect Louis Kahn (1901–74) was one of the greatest influences on world architecture during the second half of the twentieth century. This monograph focuses on Kahn’s major designs – from the Yale Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut, the Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, Phillips Exeter Library, Exeter, New Hampshire to the National Capital of Bangladesh and the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad – as well as a number of unfinished projects, in order to understand his work and philosophy
Robert McCarter is a practising architect and Professor at the University of Florida, where he was Director of the School of Architecture from 1991-2001. He has written for numerous international publications and is author of the comprehensive monograph Frank Lloyd Wright as well as Unity Temple and Fallingwater in the 'Architecture in Detail' series, all by Phaidon Press, and William Morgan: Selected and Recent Work 1961-2001 and Frank Lloyd Wright: A Primer on Architectural Principles.
Development of an Architectural Philosophy - modernism, housing, monumentality and history; rediscovering an architecture of mass and structure - Yale Art Gallery, Jewish Community Center, University of Pennsylvania Medical Research Towers; shaping an architecture of light and shadow - Tribune Review Building, US Angolan Consulate, First Unitarian Church, Salk Institute for Biological Studies; inspired compositions in the poetics of action - Bryn Mawr Dormitory, Indian Institute of Management, Bangladesh National Capital, Dominican Motherhouse; precise experiments in the poetics of construction - Exeter Library and Dining Hall, Fort Wayne Performing Arts Center, Kimbell Art Museum, Yale Center for British Arts; unbuilt offerings - in the spaces of eternity - Mikveh Israel Synogogue, Memorial to Six Million Jewish Martyrs, Hurva Synagogue, Palazzo dei Congressi, New York Roosevelt Memorial.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 13.6.2005 |
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| Mitarbeit |
Designer: NB Studios |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 210 x 245 mm |
| Gewicht | 2420 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7148-4045-9 / 0714840459 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7148-4045-1 / 9780714840451 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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