Louis Isadore Kahn (1901-1974) treated each building like a temple.
Author(s): Joseph Rosa
96 Pages
Architecture, History
Series Name: Basic Art
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About the Book
Meet the man who treated each building like a temple. From Dhaka, Bangladesh, to La Jolla, California, this book traces the extraordinary architectural language of Louis Isadore Kahn, the pioneering modernist who inflected the International Style with a "back to basics" classical grammar and pierced its sleek masses with geometrical shapes and near-celestial spots of sunlight.
Book Synopsis
Louis Isadore Kahn (1901-1974) treated each building like a temple. Across the United States, in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Israel, his designs combined the sleek, utilitarian surfaces of modernism with a devotion to geometric forms and a reverence for natural light that suffused his stuctures with a monumental and breathtaking spirituality.
This essential introduction brings together 17 of Kahn's most important buildings across his cultural, governmental, religious, and residential repertoire. Plans, views, descriptions, and quality photographs trace the context and development of each project, while an introductory essay explores Kahn's unique architectural ideology and his legacy as one of the most important 20th-century American architects since Frank Lloyd Wright.
Through Kahn masterworks, such as the National Assembly Building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, or Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, we'll explore Kahn's his "back to basics" grammar inspired by ancient sites in Italy, Greece, and Egypt; and his unique vocabulary of mass, void, and light that suffused the International Style with a near-celestial luminescence.
Dimensions (Overall): 10.3 Inches (H) x 8.4 Inches (W) x .5 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.3 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 96
Genre: Architecture
Sub-Genre: History
Series Title: Basic Art
Publisher: Taschen
Format: Hardcover
Author: Joseph Rosa
Language: English
Street Date: September 8, 2016
TCIN: 88060535
UPC: 9783836543842
Item Number (DPCI): 247-41-8536
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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