You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn - Couverture rigide

Lesser, Wendy

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0374279977 ISBN 13 : 9780374279974

Editeur : Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 2017

Synopsis

Born to a Jewish family in Estonia in 1901 and brought to America in 1906, the architect Louis Kahn grew up in poverty in Philadelphia; by the time of his death in 1974, he was widely recognised as one of the greatest architects of his era. Yet this enormous reputation was based on only a handful of masterpieces, all built during the last fifteen years of his life. Perfectly complementing Nathaniel Kahn's award-winning documentary, My Architect, Wendy Lesser's You Say to Brick is a major exploration of the architect's life and work. Kahn, perhaps more than any other twentieth- century American architect, was a "public" architect. Eschewing the usual corporate skyscrapers, hotels, and condominiums, he focused on medical and educational research facilities, government centers, museums, libraries, parks, religious buildings, and other structures that would serve the public good. Yet this warm, captivating person, beloved by students and admired by colleagues, was also a secretive and mysterious character hiding behind a series of masks. Drawing on extensive original research; lengthy interviews with his children, his colleagues, and his students; and travel to the far-flung sites of his career-defining buildings, Lesser has written a landmark biography of this elusive man, which reveals the mind behind some of the twentieth century's most celebrated architecture.

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À propos de l?auteur

Wendy Lesser is the founder and editor of The Threepenny Review and the author of one novel and nine previous books of nonfiction, including Why I Read (FSG 2014), which garnered rave reviews from coast to coast. She has written for the New York Times Book Review, the London Review of Books, the TLS, and other publications. To complete this biography, she was awarded one of the first NEH Public Scholar awards, the only one given to a Californian in 2015.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0374279977
• ISBN 13: 9780374279974
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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