Main entry:

Lobell, John.

Title & Author:

Between silence and light : spirit in the architecture of Louis I. Kahn / John Lobell.

Publication:

Boulder : Shambhala : Distributed in the U.S. by Random House, 1979.

Description:

120 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-120).
I. Silence and light: Louis Kahn's words : Joy ; Touch, sight ; Wonder ; Realization, intuition ; The unmeasurable and the measurable ; Knowledge ; Order ; Silence and light ; Light ; Singularity ; Making something ; Form and design ; Place ; Space ; Structure ; The plan ; The garden and the room ; Materials ; The wall, the column ; Institutions ; Architecture ; The architect ; The teacher ; Time beyond time ; Why architecture? -- II. Architecture as spirit -- III. Some of Louis Kahn's buildings : Alfred Newton Richards Medical Research Building ; Salk Institute for Biological Studies ; Salk Institute Community Center ; Sher-E-Bangla-Nagar, master plan ; National Assembly Hall, Sher-E-Bangla-Nagar ; Kimball Art Museum ; Library, Phillips Exeter Academy ; Yale Center fro British Art and Studies -- IV. Appendices : Biographical note on Louis I. Kahn ; Biographical note on John Lobell.
Library, Phillips Exeter Academy. Exeter, New Hampshire. 1967-72. p. 100-[105]. ill., plans, section.

Summary:

Looks at Louis Kahn's buildings including the Exeter Library and the Salk Institute as well as examining his impact on contemporary architecture and presenting his theories concerning the relationship between human consciousness and building design.

Resources:
French equivalent / Équivalent français

ISBN:

0394506251
9780394506258
0394736877 (pbk.)
9780394736877 (pbk.)
0877731489
9780877731481
0877731500
9780877731504
0877331500

Subject:

Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974.
Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974 Aesthetics.
Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture Philosophie.
architectural theory.
Architects United States 20th century.
Architects
Architecture
Architecture, Modern
Kahn Louis I 1901-1974

Form/genre:

Lectures.

Added entries:

Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 154267
Call No.: NA44.K12.9 L6 1979
Status: Available