Louis I. Kahn. Robert McCarter. txt
New York : Phaidos , 2005Descripción: 485 p. ill. ;col. ;plans. ;maps. ; 26 cmTipo de contenido:- text
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- 720.92 23
- NA737.K32 M33 2005
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US architect Louis Kahn (1901-74) was one of the greatest influences on world architecture during the second half of the twentieth century. This monograph focuses on Kahn's major designs - from the Yale Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut, the Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, Phillips Exeter Library, Exeter, New Hampshire to the National Capital of Bangladesh and the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad - as well as a number of unfinished projects, in order to understand his work and philosophy
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Introduction --
Development of an architectural philosophy --
Rooms of the city; History as the architect's friend; Beginning in Europe; Becoming a modern architect; Monumentality; Teaching architecture; Independent practice; Rome and the power of ruins --
Rediscovering an architecture of mass and structure --
Introduction; Yale University Art Gallery; Building with hollow stones; Jewish Community Center; Building and teaching; University of Pennsylvania Medical Research Towers; The Philadelphia school of architecture; Conclusion: structure and space --
Shaping an architecture of light and shadow --
Introduction; Tribune Review Publishing Company Building; United States Consulate Chancellery and Residence; Building shadow and space with folded walls; First Unitarian Church and School; Wrapping ruins around buildings; Salk Institute for Biological Studies; Conclusion: the hypostyle hall, the kasbah and the cosmic garden --
Inspired compositions in the poetics of action --
Introduction; Erdman Hall Dormitory, Bryn Mawr College; Indian Institute of Management; Bangladesh National Capital; Carving earth, mass and space; Dominican Motherhouse; Composing independent elements; Conclusion: starting with space --
Precise experiments in the poetics of construction --
Introduction; Library and Dining Hall, Phillips Exeter Academy; Fort Wayne Performing Arts Theater; Fusing space and structure; Kimbell Art Museum; Shaping space under roof shells; Yale Center for British Art; Building with advanced and archaic construction; Conclusion: the profession is in the marketplace, architecture is in the university --
Unbuilt offerings: in the spaces of eternity --
Introduction; Mikveh Israel Synagogue; Memorial to the Six Million Jewish Martyrs; Hurva Synagogue; Palazzo dei Congressi; F. D. Roosevelt Memorial; Waiting for the right circumstances; Conclusion: the voices of silence: tradition and history --
Louis I. Kahn (1901-74) was one of the single greatest influences on world architecture in the second half of the twentieth century. This book provides a comprehensive critical overview of Kahn's architecture, examining his works chronologically and exploring key themes and their evolution throughout his career. Including both built and unbuilt projects, each of the architect's major buildings is analysed, beginning with the design process and ordering ideas, followed by the methods and materials of construction, and finally a 'walk-through' of the spaces themselves - recognizing that Kahn's primary concern was interior space and its experience. Each project is extensively illustrated with photographs that convey the spirit of Kahn's work and a concept development portfolio documents the inspirations and ideas that led to the finished design." "Robert McCarter's authoritative text explores how Louis I. Kahn redefined modern architecture. Featuring a selection of original drawings and photographs from the Louis I. Kahn Archives and newly redrawn plans, this book also includes selected writings by Kahn and the first publication of the complete chronology of Kahn's buildings and projects, compiled by William Whitaker, Chief Curator of the Louis I. Kahn Archives. This monograph is an indispensable reference work on this renowned architect.
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There is no disputing the publisher's claim that this massive survey by McCarter (architecture, Univ. of Florida) is "the definitive monograph on the American architect's lifework." This is all the Louis Kahn (1901-74) that one could ever need, with 548 black-and-white and color images and a comprehensive list of more than 230 of the architect's projects, at least 30 of them previously unattributed. Though some may find Kahn's work unfriendly-strong on mass, heft, and weight-McCarter gets high marks for his attention to the details of Kahn's life, career, and works. He is thorough, grounded, and not adoring in his respect for his subject. There is also important coverage of computer-generated enhancement to Kahn's unfinished projects, which play perfectly on what might have been to lend sympathetic and visual support toward extending Kahn's list of projects. Recommended for larger or specialized architectural collections.-David Bryant, New Canaan Lib., CT (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.CHOICE Review
This beautiful book represents the best complete critical study to date of Louis Kahn, one of America's and the modern world's three or four greatest architects. McCarter is the author of Frank Lloyd Wright (CH, Apr'98, 35-4287), an equally monumental study of America's and perhaps the world's greatest architect. In fact, these two studies are the monumental bookends of McCarter's long career as a teacher of architecture at the University of Florida in Gainesville. With a romantic vision as big as Goethe's, Kahn reconceptualized modern architecture in the 1960s, making it at once modern and archaic, minimalist and monumental, contemporary and classic. Through the power of his abstract vision, he became the most influential architect in the world after 1960. This book adds more than 30 works to the previous complete list of Kahn's oeuvre, which appeared in David B. Brownlee and David G. De Long's Louis I. Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture (CH, Apr'92, 29-4282). The book is ably researched, copiously footnoted, beautifully illustrated, and stunningly produced, but it does lack a bibliography. ^BSumming Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. P. Kaufman Boston Architectural CenterNotas de autor provistas por Syndetics
Robert McCarter is a prominent architectural historian and practising architect, and Professor of Architecture at Washington University, St Louis. He is the author of Unity Temple and Fallingwater in Phaidon's Architecture in Detail series, and is author of the monograph Frank Lloyd Wright and the primer On and By Frank Lloyd Wright , also by Phaidon Press.