Louis Kahn Drawing to Find Out: The Dominican Motherhouse and the Patient Search for Architecture

Michael Merrill

ISBN 10: 3037782218 / ISBN 13: 9783037782217

Edité par Lars Müller Publishers, 2010

Book is in NEW condition. 3.7. N° de réf. du vendeur 3037782218-2-1

Synopsis :

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 Over two hundred - mostly unpublished - drawings by Kahn and his associates are woven together with a lively and informed commentary into an intimate biography of an architectural idea.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' architect" - 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.

À propos de l?auteur: Michael Merrill , Dr.-Ing., is a practicing architect in the USA and Germany and assistant professor for Architectural Design at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Louis Kahn Drawing to Find Out: The ...
Éditeur : Lars Müller Publishers
Date d'édition : 2010
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat : New