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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.
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Joseph Rosa est le directeur du Musée des Arts de l'Université de Michigan. Il a publié de nombreux ouvrages et a enseigné à l’Institut d’Architecture de Californie du Sud (SCI-Arc), à l'Université des Arts de Californie, à la Faculté de Design Environnemental de Berkeley, et à la Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation de l’Université de Columbia.
Peter Gössel dirige une agence de design pour les musées et les expositions. Il a publié pour TASCHEN des monographies consacrées à Julius Shulman, R.M. Schindler, John Lautner et Richard Neutra, ainsi que plusieurs titres de la Petite Collection architecture.
Peter Gössel dirige une agence de design pour les musées et les expositions. Il a publié pour TASCHEN des monographies consacrées à Julius Shulman, R.M. Schindler, John Lautner et Richard Neutra, ainsi que plusieurs titres de la Petite Collection architecture.
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- PublisherTaschen America Llc
- Publication date2016
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