Description
| Product ID: | 9783037782217 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | DE |
| Title: | Louis Kahn: Drawing to Find Out |
| Authors: | Author: Michael Merrill |
| Page Count: | 240 |
| Subjects: | Individual architects and architectural firms, Individual architects & architectural firms |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating An ideal introduction to Kahn's thinking. Over two hundred drawings, most published for the first time in a generous, high-quality volume. A narrative in drawings sheds light on a profound culture of designing. Like few others, Louis Kahn cultivated the craft of drawing as a means to architecture. His personal design drawings - seen either as a method of discovery or for themselves - are unique in the twentieth century. Over two hundred - mostly unpublished - drawings by Kahn and his associates are woven together with a lively and informed commentary into an intimate biography of an architectural idea. Unfolding around the iconic project for the Dominican Motherhouse (1965 - 69) the drawings form a narrative which not only reveals the richness and hidden dimensions of this unbuilt masterpiece, but provides compelling insights into Louis Kahn''s mature culture of designing. Kahn - long considered an architects'' architectA" - emerges as a vivid and instructive guide, provoking reflection on questions which continue to remain relevant: on how works are conceived, on how they might be perceived, on how they become part of human experience. Fascinating not only in their beauty, the drawings open a new and stimulating perspective on one of the past century''s great architects. |
| Imprint Name: | Lars Muller Publishers |
| Publisher Name: | Lars Muller Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2010-09-01 |