Main entry:

Lobell, John, author.

Title & Author:

Louis Kahn : architecture as philosophy / John Lobell.

Publication:

New York, NY : Monacelli Press, [2020]
©2020

Description:

195 pages : illustrations, plans ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-193).
1.0. Architecture As Philosophy -- 1.1. Two Approaches -- 1.2. The Beaux Arts -- 1.3. Modern Architecture -- 1.4. What They Mean -- 1.5. Mid-Twentieth-Century Architecture -- 2.0. Kahn's Analysis -- 2.1. Dissatisfaction -- 2.2. The Rejection of Monumentality -- 2.3. A Return of Monumentality? -- 2.4. Order Instead of Monumentality -- 2.5. Architecture as the Art of Institutions -- 2.6. Form and Design -- 2.7. Materials -- 2.8. Building as Vocabulary -- 2.9. Existence Wills -- 2.10. Another Modern Architecture -- 2.11. Essentialism -- 3.0. Themes In Kahn's Architecture -- 3.1. Backgrounds -- 3.2. Plan -- 3.2.1. Rejection of the Flexible Plan -- 3.2.2. Served and Servant Spaces -- 3.2.3. The Plan as the Giver of Meaning -- 3.2.4. Relational Hierarchy -- 3.2.5. Centers of Buildings -- 3.2.6. Thick Walls -- 3.2.7. Entrances -- 3.2.8. The Wholeness of Buildings/Modular buildings -- 3.3. Structure and Mechanical -- 3.3.1. One Way to Approach Kahn -- 3.3.2. Structure as Generative -- 3.3.3. The Grid -- 3.3.4. Mechanical as the Equal of Structure -- 3.4. Construction -- 3.4.1. The Essences of Materials -- 3.4.2. Articulation Over Integration -- 3.4.3. A Preference for Masonry -- 3.4.4. Details -- 3.4.5. The Building is the Record -- 3.5. Light -- 3.6. Rome -- 4.0. Five Buildings -- 4.x.1. Background and Context -- 4.x.2. Activities -- 4.x.3. Form Statement -- 4.x.4. Spatial Organization and Plan -- 4.x.5. Structure -- 4.x.6. Mechanical -- 4.x.7. Materials -- 4.x.8. Details -- 4.x.9. Light -- 4.x.10. Experiencing the Building -- 4.x.11. Philosophical Statement -- 4.x.12. Critique and Comments -- 4.x.13. Comparisons and Influences -- 4.1. Alfred Newton Richards Medical Research Building Richards) -- 4.2. Salk Institute for Biological Studies (Salk) -- 4.3. Library, Phillips Exeter Academy (Exeter) -- 4.4. Kimbell Art Museum (Kimbell) -- 4.5. Yale Center For British Art (Yale) -- 5.0. Conclusion -- 6.0. Appendices -- Kahn in Relationship to Theories of his Time -- About Louis I. Kahn -- List of Projects 1926-74 -- Selected Bibliography -- Credits -- Acknowledgments.

Summary:

Louis I. Kahn is one of the most influential and poetic architects of the twentieth century, a figure whose appeal extends beyond the realm of specialists. In this book, noted Kahn expert John Lobell explores how Kahn's focus on structure, respect for materials, clarity of program, and reverence for details come together to manifest an overall philosophy. Kahn's work clearly conveys a kind of transcendent rootedness, a rootedness in the fundamentals of architecture that also asks soaring questions about our experience of light and space, and even how we fit into the world. In Louis Kahn: The Philosophy of Architecture, John Lobell seeks to reveal how Kahn's buildings speak to grand humanistic concerns. Through examinations of five of Kahn's great buildings, the Richards Medical Research Building in Philadelphia; the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla; the Phillips Exeter Academy Library in New Hampshire; the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth; and the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Lobell presents a clear but detailed look at how the way these buildings are put together presents Kahn's philosophy, including how Kahn wishes us to experience them. An architecture book that touches on topics that addresses the universal human interests of consciousness and creativity, Louis Kahn: The Philosophy of Architecture helps us understand our place and the nature of well-being in the built environment.

ISBN:

9781580935289 (hardcover)
1580935281 (hardcover)

Subject:

Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974 Criticism and interpretation.
Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974 Philosophy.
Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture, Modern Philosophy.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture
Philosophy

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308471
Call No.: BIB 253844
Status: Available