Main entry:

Goldhagen, Sarah Williams.

Title & Author:

Louis Kahn's situated modernism / Sarah Williams Goldhagen.

Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, ©2001.

Description:

277 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-266) and index.
Introduction : Situating Louis Kahn -- Kahn and American modernism : the search for community and the turn toward monumentality -- Quest for authenticity : the art gallery at Yale -- Techno-organic symbols of community : a new city hall for Philadelphia and the AFL Medical Services -- Gathering people into a community : the Adath Jeshurun Synagogue for Communication -- Struggling for a new idiom : the Trenton Jewish Community Center and Bathhouse, and the Philadelphia Civic Center plan -- Rethinking modernism : authenticity and community in the First Unitarian Church of Rochester -- Situating the democratic way of life : the National Assembly Complex in Dhaka, Bangladesh -- Louis Kahn's situated modernism.

Summary:

"Louis Kahn is perhaps the most important architect to emerge in the decades following World War II. In this book Sarah Williams Goldhagen dismantles the myths that have cast Kahn variously as a mystical neo-Platonist, a structural rationalist, a visionary champion of Beaux-Arts principles, or a rebel against modernism. She demonstrates instead that Kahn's architecture is grounded in his deeply held modernist political, social, and artistic ideals, which guided him as he sought to rework modernism into a socially transformative architecture appropriate for the postwar world."
"Goldhagen presents much new archival evidence about Kahn's buildings, his ideas, and his indebtedness to contemporary art and to the many socio-critical and architectural discourses of the postwar years. She offers fresh interpretations of many of his important buildings, including the Yale University Art Gallery and the National Assembly complex in Bangladesh, as well as of such previously understudied or misunderstood works as the Trenton Bathhouse and his AFL Medical Services building in Philadelphia. Goldhagen then theorizes Kahn's architectural principles to show that he struggled with modernism rather than against it, reconceptualizing it into a singular and powerful new vocabulary that retains architectural and social relevance today."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

0300077866 (alk. paper)
9780300077865 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974 Criticism and interpretation.
Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974 Political and social views.
Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974 Critique et interprétation.
Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974 Pensée politique et sociale.
Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974
Kahn, Louis I. 1901-1974
Kahn, Louis Isadore, (1901-1974) Critique et interprétation.
Kahn, Louis I.
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
Architecture United States History 20th century.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture
Political and social views
Architektur
Architekturtheorie
Architecten.
Architects United States 20th century.
United States

Form/genre:

Quotations (texts)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

Added entries:

Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 216791
Call No.: NA44.K12.23 G6 2001
Status: Available