
The Houses of Louis Kahn George H. Marcus, William Whitaker
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- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication date:
- 12 Nov 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300171181
- Imprint:
- Yale University Press
- Dimensions:
- 280 pages: 267 x 235mm
- Illustrations:
- 100 color + 150 b-w illus.
- Sales territories:
- World
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A stunning celebration of the architect’s residential masterpieces
Louis Kahn (1901–1974), one of the most important architects of the postwar period, is widely admired for his great monumental works, including the Kimbell Art Museum, the Salk Institute, and the National Assembly Complex in Bangladesh. However, the importance of his houses has been largely overlooked. This beautiful book is the first to look at Kahn’s nine major private houses. Beginning with his earliest encounters with Modernism in the late 1920s and continuing through his iconic work of the 1960s and 1970s, the authors trace the evolution of the architect’s thinking, which began and matured through his design of houses and their interiors, a process inspired by his interactions with clients and his admiration for vernacular building traditions.
Richly illustrated with new and period photographs and original drawings, as well as previously unpublished materials from personal interviews, archives, and Kahn’s own writings, The Houses of Louis Kahn shows how his ideas about domestic spaces challenged conventions, much like his major public commissions, and were developed into one of the most remarkable expressions of the American house.
George H. Marcus is adjunct assistant professor of the history of art at the University of Pennsylvania. William Whitaker is curator of the Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania, which houses the Louis I. Kahn Collection.
"Reveals an architect of mythic stature working on an intimate scale."—Elle Décor
"An important addition to the scholarship about Louis Kahn by addressing a portion of his oeuvre lesser known but certainly not less significant."—Docomomo
Winner of the 2014 Athenaeum Literary Award for Art and Architecture given by the Athenaeum of Philadelphia
"A spellbinding account of the artistic and intellectual maturation of one of the most important and influential architects of the last century. It is quite simply the most important book on Kahn to be published in over two decades."—Michael J. Lewis, Williams College, author of American Art and Architecture
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