Louis I. Kahn: Beyond Time and Style: A Life in Architecture - Hardcover

Wiseman, Carter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393731650 ISBN 13: 9780393731651

Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Wiseman Carter

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Críticas:

"[E]xcellent overview of....how Scandinavian furniture defined a past era, and how it will likely define the future...[A] book other biographers of architects should emulate." -- Sandy McLendon - Modernism Magazine "[A]n authoritative and beautifully illustrated book." -- Yale Alumni Magazine "[A]n accessible and handsome biography...[A] welcome tribute to a twentieth-century master" -- Rob Hardy - The Commercial Dispatch "Wiseman...has done us all a service...a balanced and penetrating study of Kahn both as an architect and as a man." -- James Gardner - New York Sun "[An] excellent new biography." -- Christopher Hawthorne - Metropolis Magazine "[P]hotos of Kahn's...work, most previously unpublished, add an amazing visual aspect to this most visual and visionary of architects" -- ENR

Reseña del editor:

Now ranked with Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe, Louis I. Kahn brought a reverence for history back into modern architecture while translating it into a uniquely contemporary idiom. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews with colleagues, coworkers, clients, and family members and illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs, this book documents the uniquely American rise of a poor immigrant to the pinnacle of the international architectural world. It illuminates the richly diverse personal relationships Kahn had with such clients as Jonas Salk and Paul Mellon, and the romantic entanglements that mystified even those closest to him. While celebrating the genius of Kahnis art, the book provides an invaluable portrait of the man who created it.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: WW Norton & Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0393731650
• ISBN 13: 9780393731651
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 88