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Louis I. Kahn (1901–74) was one of the foremost architects in America during the twentieth century. His notable buildings include the Yale Study Center; the Salk Institute in Pasadena, California; and the Exeter Library in Exeter, New Hampshire. On February 12, 1969, Kahn gave a lecture at the School of Architecture at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich. Entitled Silence and Light, the lecture explains Kah's spiritual understanding of architecture, which goes far deeper than simply constructing buildings. He also gives a remarkably prescient account of a belief in sustainable architecture that prefigures the twenty-first century’s focus on green technology. The lecture is represented in transcripts into five different languages (German, Italian, English, French, and Spanish), as well as an audio recording of Kahn giving the lecture in English included on CD. To complement the original text, the editor has included a preface written by Kahn’s close friend and fellow architect Balkrishna V. Doshi, as well as many of Kahn’s own images and drawings, some of which have never been published before.
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Alessandro Vassella is a Swiss architect educated at ETH Zurich. A leading expert in ecological building and planning, he works as an architect and consultant, specializing in the refurbishment of listed buildings. He is co-author of Louis I. Kahn—Complete Work 1935–74.
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Louis I. Kahn is unarguably one of the most eminent and influential figures of 20th-century architecture. He is known as the poet and philosopher among the great modern architects. On 12 February 1969, Kahn gave a lecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), entitled Silence and Light. This fundamental text reveals Kahn's spiritual understanding of architecture and his creative thinking. Kahn's idea of architecture goes far beyond the mere building. He understands architecture as a concept comprising the entire environment of mankind. With this he anticipated more than forty years ago what is branded "sustainability in architecture" today. Louis I. Kahn - Silence and Light makes this text available again in its original version, for the first time ever also in Kahn's own voice on audio-CD. The book includes a full-length transcript of the Zurich lecture in original English and translations into French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Kahn's sketches drawn while speaking and number of previously unpublished images of the architect lecturing complement the text. Text in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. AUTHOR: Alessandro L. B. Vassella graduated in architecture from ETH Zurich. He has been one of the co-editors of Louis I Kahn's Complete Works (Birkhauser, 1977). He is an expert on ecological architecture. 50 b/w illustrations Im Frühjahr 1969 zeigte die ETH Zürich die erste umfassende Ausstellung über das Werk des Architekten Louis I. Kahn. Zur Eröffnung hielt Kahn den später berühmt gewordenen Vortrag Silence and Light: ein Manifest seines spirituellen Verständnisses von Architektur. Für Kahn war das mathematisch Messbare nur ein Mittel, der Architekt Diener des Unmessbaren; es ging ihm um das Fundamentale, um Stille und Licht. In einer Zeit, in der die Baukunst - die Kunst des Fügens - aus den Fugen geraten zu sein schien, plädierte er für vertraute und zeitlose Mittel wie Wand, Pfeiler, Gewölbe, Quadrat, Kreis, Pyramide, Prisma, Zylinder, die in seinem Werk eine neue Wirkung erhielten, als habe er sie zum ersten Mal geprägt (Bernhard Hoesli) und mit neuer Bedeutung erfüllt. Zwischen Vergangenheit und Gegenwart gab es keine Bruchlinie. Mit seinen kräftigen und poetischen Bauten beeinflusste Kahn Generationen von Architekten. Die Tonaufnahme umfasst Kahns Originalvortrag sowie die Einleitung von Bernhard Hoesli. Das bibliophile, schön ausgestattete Buch umfasst den englischen Originaltext des Vortrags sowie Übersetzungen ins Deutsche, Französische, Spanische und Italienische. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9783906027180
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