Rosa Joseph - Louis I. Kahn - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: Louis Isadore Kahn (1901 1974) treated each building like a temple. Across the United States in India Bangladesh Pakistan and Israel his designs combined the sleek utilitarian surfaces of modernism with a devotion to geometric forms and a reverence for natural light that suffused his stuctures with a monumental and breathtaking spirituality. This essential introduction brings together 17 of Kahn's most important buildings across his cultural governmental religious and residential repertoire. Plans views descriptions and quality photographs trace the context and development of each project while an introductory essay explores Kahn's unique architectural ideology and his legacy as one of the most important 20th - century American architects since Frank Lloyd Wright. Through Kahn masterworks such as the National Assembly Building in Dhaka Bangladesh or Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth Texas we ll explore Kahn's his back to basics grammar inspired by ancient sites in Italy Greece and Egypt; and his unique vocabulary of mass void and light that suffused the International Style with a near - celestial luminescence.
Title: Louis I. Kahn
Author(s): Rosa Joseph, Peter Gossel
Publisher: Taschen Gmbh
Barcode: 9783836543842
Pages: 96 Pages
Publication Date: 9/8/2016
Series: Basic Art
Category: Architecture