BETWEEN SILENCE & LGHT - Softcover

Lobell, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394736877 ISBN 13: 9780394736877

Publisher: Shambhala, 1979

Synopsis

Looks at Louis Kahn's buildings including the Exeter Library and the Salk Institute as well as examining his impact on contemporary architecture and presenting his theories concerning the relationship between human consciousness and building design

About this title

About the Author

John Lobell, an architect and a professor in the School of Architecture at Pratt Institute, studied at the University of Pennsylvania during the years when Louis Kahn was on the faculty there.

Review

“Ideas change society; architecture changes the visible, functioning environment. Occasionally, one man’s creativity spans both; and the way men build to express their emotional and physical needs is never quite the same again. Louis Kahn was such a man.”—The New York Times

"Like all good books on architecture, this one leaves you wanting to be there, to inhabit Kahn's meaningful and moving spaces. With each passing year, Kahn's importance to architecture and culture becomes evermore clear, his buildings' eternal and circumstantial attributes become evermore evident, and their exceptional quality becomes evermore present in our experience. Kahn loved beginnings, and for those wishing to explore Kahn's work and thought, this beautiful book is a very good place to start."—Robert McCarter, Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture, Washington University in St. Louis, author of Louis I. Kahn

"Between Silence and Light beautifully captures the essence of my father's spiritual ideas about architecture. It is a luminous book."—Nathaniel Kahn, Academy Award–nominated filmmaker of My Architect 

Edition details

• Publisher: Shambhala
• Publication date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394736877
• ISBN 13: 9780394736877
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 120