Louis I. Kahn : conversations with students / [Dung Ngo, editor].

Main entry:

Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974.

Title & Author:

Louis I. Kahn : conversations with students / [Dung Ngo, editor].

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publication:

Description:

93 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Series:

Architecture at Rice ; 26

Notes:
First edition published as: Louis I. Kahn : talks with students. 1969.
Includes bibliographical references.
White light, black shadow -- Design is form towards presence -- Hands up / Lars Lerup -- Louis Kahn's two careers / Michael Bell.

Summary:

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.

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Publisher description

ISBN:

156898149X
9781568981499

Subject:

Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974 Philosophy.
Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974 Philosophie.
Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974
Kahn, Louis I. 1901-1974
Kahn, Louis I. (1901-1974) Entretiens.
Kahn, Louis I.
Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture Philosophie.
Architecture 20e siècle.
architectural theory.
Philosophy
Architekturtheorie
Architects United States 20th century.

Form/genre:

Interviews.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Ngo, Dung.
Architecture at Rice University ; no. 26.

Conversations with students

Holdings:

Location: Library main 221367
Call No.: NA44.K12.A35 1998
Status: Available

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