Louis Kahn to Anne Tyng: The Rome Letters, 1953-1954
Language: English
Published by Rizzoli, NY, 1997
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- Title
- Louis Kahn to Anne Tyng: The Rome Letters, 1953-1954
- Author
- Tyng, Anne Griswold
- Publisher
- Rizzoli, NY
- Publication year
- 1997
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0847820092
- ISBN 13
- 9780847820092
- Edition
- 1997 Reprint
Anne Tyng's introduction and epilogue frame Kahn's letters within the contexts of both their personal histories. Tyng's account of her own extraordinary life-- growing up as the child of missionaries in China, fleeing political turmoil on the eye of the Communist Revolution-- although factual, often reads like adventure fiction, and reveals Tyng to be a gifted writer. She also records the sequence of Kahn's and her work together, including their collaboration on such seminal works as the Yale University Art Gallery and the Trenton Bathhouse, as well as her independent architectural projects.
Kahn's letters, together with Anne Tyng's intimate essays, vividly capture the professional politics of the modern architecture scene-- such prominent figures as Philip Johnson, Eero and Aline Saarinen, Vincent Scully, George Howe, Pier Luigi Nervi, and Robert Venturi make appearances-- and illuminate the creative processes at work in the early stages of Kahn's emergence as one of the most influential architects of the twentieth century.
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