| Description |
284 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Arrival: Estonia, the northern liberties, and Penn (1901/24) -- To change the world: the lean years (1924/47) -- Academia and emergence: the Yale University Art Gallery (1951/53) -- Back home to Philadelphia: the Richards Medical Research Building (1957/65) -- The client connection: the Salk Institute for Biological Studies (1959/65) -- "A degree of utter purity": the subcontinent (1962/83) -- A "temple for learning": the Phillips Exeter Academy Library (1965/72) -- Light unleashed: the Kimbell Art Museum (1966/72) -- The moth and the butterfly: the Yale Center for British Art (1969/74) |
| Summary |
"Now ranked with Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe, Louis I. Kahn restored a reverence for history to modern arthitecture, while combining both into his own contemporary idiom." "This biographical study of the architect who fundamentally redefined twentieth-century architecture draws on more than one hundred interviews with colleagues, coworkers, clients, and family members and is illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs documenting the uniquely American rise of a poor immigrant to the pinnacle of the architectural world."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974.
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Architects -- United States -- Biography.
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Architecture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
2006030936 |
| ISBN |
9780393731651 hardcover |
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0393731650 hardcover |
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