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Louis Kahn - Drawing to Find Out

The Dominican motherhouse and the patient search for architecture

by Michael Merrill
language: english
Publisher: LARS MULLER PUBLISHERS, September of 2010 ‧
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Like few others, Louis Kahn cultivated the craft of drawing as a means to architecture. His personal design drawings - seen either as a method of discovery or for themselves - are unique in the twentieth century.

Over two hundred - mostly unpublished - drawings by Kahn and his associates are woven together with a lively and informed commentary into an intimate biography of an architectural idea.

Unfolding around the iconic project for the Dominican Motherhouse (1965-1969) the drawings form a narrative which not only reveals the richness and hidden dimensions of this unbuilt masterpiece, but provides compelling insights into Louis Kahn’s mature culture of designing.

Kahn - long considered an architects’ architect - emerges as a vivid and instructive guide, provoking reflection on questions which continue to remain relevant: on how works are conceived, on how they might be perceived, on how they become part of human experience. Fascinating not only in their beauty, the drawings open a new and stimulating perspective on one of the past century’s great architects.

Louis Kahn - Drawing to Find Out

The Dominican motherhouse and the patient search for architecture

by Michael Merrill

Property Description
ISBN: 9783037782217
Publisher: LARS MULLER PUBLISHERS
Release Date: September of 2010
Language: English
Dimensions: 307 x 243 x 27 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 240
Format: Book
Collection: Library Of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
Categories: Books in English > Art > Architecture
EAN: 9783037782217

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