Sketches for the Palazzo dei Congressi, Venice, Italy

People:

Louis I. Kahn (draughtsman)
Louis I. Kahn (architect)
August E. Komendant (role unspecified)

Title:

Sketches for the Palazzo dei Congressi, Venice, Italy

Date:

1968 or 1969

Form:
drawings

Quantity / Object type:
1 drawing(s)

Stage and Purpose:

conceptual drawings
design development drawings
structural drawings

Technique and media:

Graphite and ink on translucent paper

Dimensions:

sheet: 28,9 × 38,8 cm (11 3/8 × 15 1/4 in.)

Reference number:

DR1982:0014

Drawing Type:

line drawings
sketches

Method of Projection:

pictorial drawings
sketch elevations (drawings)
sketch plans (drawings)

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Sheet has uneven edges, some vertical buckling and creases, and pinholes at all four corners, with losses at t. corners.

Inscription:

inscribed - by the draughtsman, in graphite, l.l.: "Carlo[s]. I believe this is the clearest so far / The point[ed] ends seem more graceful to the site and the preservation of the large sycamore / ...circulation / and other needs / red yellow blue / chambers stone[?] / 3 Aud.1 2 / interior showing possible / shape of post stressed rings holding shells"; and l.r.: [illeg.]

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

suspension structure

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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