Louis I. Kahn : beyond time and style : a life in architecture / Carter Wiseman.

Main entry:

Wiseman, Carter.

Title & Author:

Louis I. Kahn : beyond time and style : a life in architecture / Carter Wiseman.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Description:

284 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Arrival: Estonia, the northern liberties, and Penn (1901-24) -- To change the world: the lean years (1924-47) -- Academia and emergence: the Yale University Art Gallery (1947-53) -- Back home to Philadelphia: the Richards Medical Research Building (1957-64) -- The client connection: the Salk Institute for Biological Studies (1959-65) -- "A degree of utter purity": the subcontinent (1962-83) -- A "temple for learning": the Phillips Exeter Academy Library (1965-72) -- Light unleashed: the Kimbell Art Museum (1966-72) -- The moth and the butterfly: the Yale Center for British Art (1969-74).

Summary:

"Now ranked with Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe, Louis I. Kahn restored a reverence for history to modern arthitecture, while combining both into his own contemporary idiom." "This biographical study of the architect who fundamentally redefined twentieth-century architecture draws on more than one hundred interviews with colleagues, coworkers, clients, and family members and is illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs documenting the uniquely American rise of a poor immigrant to the pinnacle of the architectural world."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

9780393731651 (hardcover)
0393731650 (hardcover)

Subject:

Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974.
Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974 Biographie.
Kahn, Louis I.
Kahn, Louis I. 1901-1974
Architects United States Biography.
Architecture United States History 20th century.
Architectes États-Unis Biographies.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture United States 20th century.
Architects.
Architecture.
Architektur
United States.

Form/genre:

Biography
Biographies.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 252079
Call No.: BIB 181715
Status: Available

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