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Louis Kahn: Conversations with Students

by Princeton Architectural Press

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Publisher Comments:

Explaining architecture to students requires a clarity and economy of expression that is not always associated with architects; perhaps this explains the popularity of our Conversations with Students series, which are succinct, informal introductions to the works of the world's greatest architects.

Synopsis:

Explaining architecture to students requires a clarity and economy of expression that is not always associated with architects; perhaps this explains the popularity of our Conversations with Students series, which are succinct, informal introductions to the works of the world's greatest architects.

Synopsis:

Louis Kahn (1901-74) is one of the most renowned practitioners of international modernism, on a par with Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe in the extent of his influence on subsequent generations of architects. Kahn sought the spiritual in his powerful forms, and encouraged his students to seek the essential nature of architecture. His Philadelphia-based practice was responsible for such masterpieces as the Richards Medical Research building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Yale Art Gallery extension in New Haven, Connecticut; the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas; the government complex at Dhaka, Bangladesh; and the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California.

This title, in the same format as our highly successful "Rem Koolhaas: Conversations with Students," contains a little-known essay by Kahn on his sources of inspiration, an interview with the architect on his working methods and his vision for the future of the profession, and writings on Kahn by Michael Bell and Lars Lerup, contributors to our title Stanley Saitowitz.

"Louis Kahn: Conversations with Students" is the latest title in the series from the Rice University School of Architecture.

Product Details

ISBN:
9781568981499
Subtitle:
Conversations with Students
Author:
Princeton Architectural Press
Author:
Unknown, Chronicle
Author:
Princeton Arch
Author:
Kahn, Louis
Publisher:
Princeton Architectural Press
Location:
Houston, Tex. :
Subject:
Architecture
Subject:
Addresses, essays, lectures
Subject:
Architecture, modern
Subject:
Individual Architect
Subject:
Individual Architects & Firms - General
Edition Number:
2nd ed.
Edition Description:
Includes bibliographical references.
Series Volume:
26
Publication Date:
October 1998
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
112
Dimensions:
8.05x5.58x.39 in. .31 lbs.

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