book | Louis Kahn drawing to find out

Louis Kahn drawing to find out : the DominicanMotherhouse and the patient search for architecture / Michael Merrill.
Baden : Lars Müller, 2010.
239 p.
ISBN 9783037782217*
Materias:
Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974.
Dominican Motherhouse (Pennsylvania)
Monasterios - Estados Unidos.
Biblioteca A-72 KAHN LOU
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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 Over two hundred – mostly unpublished – drawings by Kahn and his associates are woven together with a lively and informed commentary into an intimate biography of an architectural idea.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 – 69) 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.
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book | Louis Kahn on the thoughtful making of spaces

Louis Kahn on the thoughtful making of spaces : the Dominican Motherhouse and a modern culture of space / Michael Merrill.
Baden : Lars Müller, 2010.
239 p. : il.
ISBN 9783037782200*
Materias:
Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974.
Dominican Motherhouse (Pennsylvania)
Monasterios - Estados Unidos.

Biblioteca A-72 KAHN LOU

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It was not by chance that Louis Kahn’s move into his profession’s spotlight coincided with the crisis of modern architecture: representing, as his work increasingly did, those aspects of space which modernism had so ambitiously removed from its program. Kahn’s rethinking of modern architecture’s paradigm of space belongs to his most important contributions to the métier. In tracing the genesis of the unbuilt project for the Dominican Motherhouse (1965–69), we are given a close-up view of Kahn at work on a few fundamental questions of architectural space: seeking the sources of its meaning in its social, morphological, landscape and contextual dimensions.

This rich and multivalent project opens the way to a second section, which sheds new light on several of major works in a timely reappraisal of Kahn’s work.The result of extensive research, illustrated with unpublished archival material and new analytic drawings, this affordable volume is an indispensible companion to "Louis Kahn: Drawing to Find Out".
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