Louis Kahn: Drawing to Find Out : Designing the Dominican Motherhouse
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
3037782218
ISBN-13
9783037782217
Publisher
Lars Muller Publishers
Imprint
Lars Muller Publishers
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 1st, 2010
Print length
240 Pages
Weight
1,684 grams
Dimensions
24.50 x 30.60 x 2.90 cms
Product Classification:
Individual architects & architectural firms
Ksh 12,400.00
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An ideal introduction to Kahn's thinking. Over two hundred drawings, most published for the first time in a generous, high-quality volume. A narrative in drawings sheds light on a profound culture of designing.
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 Over two hundred - mostly unpublished - drawings by Kahn and his associates are woven together with a lively and informed commentary into an intimate biography of an architectural idea.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'' architectA" - 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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