Louis Kahn to Anne Tyng : the Rome letters, 1953-1954 / edited with commentary by Anne Griswold Tyng.

Main entry:

Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974.

Title & Author:

Louis Kahn to Anne Tyng : the Rome letters, 1953-1954 / edited with commentary by Anne Griswold Tyng.

Publication:

New York : Rizzoli, 1997.

Description:

216 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Born on a Castled Island in the Baltic -- Born on a Mountain in China -- Finding Identity in Time and Space -- Professional and Private Lives -- Louis Kahn to Anne Tyng: Letters, November 1953-December 1954 -- Return.

Summary:

After maintaining a professional and personal relationship with Louis Kahn for seven years, Anne Griswold Tyng departed in the autumn of 1953 for Rome. During her year in Italy, where their daughter was born, Kahn wrote weekly to Tyng, and his correspondence to her is published here for the first time. The fifty-three letters document not only their intense private relationship, but also give a vibrant account of the experience of a brilliant young architect on the cusp of achieving international renown. Kahn's letters, together with Anne Tyng's intimate essays, vividly capture the professional politics of the modern architecture scene - such prominent figures as Philip Johnson, Eero and Aline Saarinen, Vincent Scully, George Howe, Pier Luigi Nervi, and Robert Venturi make appearances - and illuminate the creative processes at work in the early stages of Kahn's emergence as one of the most influential architects of the twentieth century.

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Publisher description

ISBN:

0847820092 (hc)
9780847820092 (hc)
084782053X (pbk.)
9780847820535 (pbk.)

Subject:

Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974 Correspondence.
Tyng, Anne Griswold, 1920-2011.
Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974
Kahn, Louis I. 1901-1974
Tyng, Anne Griswold 1920-2011
Tyng, Anne Griswold.
Kahn, Louis I.
Architects United States Correspondence.
Architectes États-Unis Correspondance.
Architects
Briefsammlung
Architects United States 20th century Correspondence.
Arkitekter Förenta staterna 1900-talet.
United States
Architects Correspondence United States
Kahn, Louis I. Correspondence

Form/genre:

Briefsammlung 1953-1954.
Correspondence.
Personal correspondence

Added entries:

Tyng, Anne Griswold, 1920-2011.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 200053
Call No.: NA44.K12.A3 1997
Status: Available

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