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9780714849713

Louis I Kahn

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  • ISBN13:

    9780714849713

  • ISBN10:

    0714849715

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2009-03-07
  • Publisher: Phaidon Press
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Summary

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

Author Biography

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.

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