Louis Kahn : the power of architecture / [editors, Mateo Kries, Jochen Eisenbrand, Stanislaus von Moos ; translations: Brian Currid, Barbara Hauss, Anna Stuler].
Contributor(s): Eisenbrand, Jochen | Kries, Mateo | Moos, Stanislaus von | Nederlands Architectuurinstituut | University of Pennsylvania. Architectural Archives | Vitra Design Museum.
Weil am Rhein : Vitra Design Museum, 2012Description: 354 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), plans ; 33 cm.ISBN: 3931936929 (English edition : hd. bd.); 9783931936921 (English edition : hd. bd.).Other title: Power of architecture.Subject(s): Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974 -- Exhibitions | Architecture, Modern -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | NA737.K32 A4 2012 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000003861 |
Contains no title page, title from cover.
Exhibition catalog.
On the occasion of an exhibition held at Nederlands Architektuurinstituut, Rotterdam, September 8, 2012 - January 6, 2013; Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, March 9 - August 25, 2013; National Museum, Oslo, October 18, 2013 - January 26, 2014.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Essays. Chronology / William Whitaker -- Monument? Forum? Fair? Louis Kahn, Edmund Bacon, and Philadelphia / Stanislaus von Moos -- Between grid and pathway : the houses of Louis Kahn / Jochen Eisenbrand -- Louis Kahn's art and his architectural thought / Michael Lewis -- Portfolio, sketches and drawings -- Kahn's edge : the provocative historicism of the Trenton Jewish Community Center / Neil Levine -- Louis Kahn and the French connection / Kenneth Frampton -- Toward cognitive architecture / Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen -- Louis I. Kahn's building for three faiths : "Religion ... not a religion." / Susan G. Solomon -- Enclosure : Kahn / Thomas Florschuetz -- Mettre la nature en oeuvre / Florian Sauter -- "Unavoidable nuisances:" engineering and engineers in the work of Louis Kahn / Thomas Leslie -- Louis Kahn and the life of materials / Rejean Legault -- Modern architecture and the excavation of the past / William J.R. Curtis.