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Louis I. Kahn

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Robert McCarter
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Book, Phaidon, 2005
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The considerable beauty of Robert McCarter’s book about Louis Kahn, one of the titans of modern archtitecture, is akin to a Kahn building: squarish, monumental, monkish yet passionate and cunningly designed. With exhilarated admiration, McCarter explains how Kahn coated the Salk project’s concrete forms with polyurethane for perfect smoothness, added travertine stone and pozzuolana in the old Roman fashion to fashion textures and warm the tones, and fulfilled the master’s ambition to fufill the material’s potential: “Concrete really wants to be granite, but it can’t manage.” (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Kahn, Louis I., · 1901-1974 · Criticism and interpretation · Architects · United States · Architecture, Modern · 20th century · McCarter, Robert, 1955-
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Louis I. Kahn : Building Art, Building Science

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Thomas Leslie
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Book, 1st ed, George Braziller, 2005
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The examination of four major buildings?the Yale Art Gallery, the Richards Medical Laboratories, the Salk Institute, and the Kimbell Art Museum?and several smaller projects by Kahn reveals this hidden theme: an expressive integration of construction, structure, and services into buildings that dramatically highlight the processes involved in their making and function. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Kahn, Louis I., · 1901-1974 · Criticism and interpretation · Architecture · United States · 20th century · Leslie, Thomas, 1967- · Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974
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Louis Kahn’s Situated Modernism

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Sarah Williams Goldhagen
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Book, Yale University Press, 2001
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Louis Kahn is perhaps the most important architect to emerge in the decades following World War II. Goldhagen theorizes Kahn’s architectural principles to show that he struggled with modernism rather than against it, reconceptualizing it into a singular and powerful new vocabulary that retains architectural and social relevance today. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Kahn, Louis I., · 1901-1974 · Criticism and interpretation · Political and social views · Architecture · United States · 20th century · Goldhagen, Sarah Williams · Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974
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(UPPER LEVEL) NA737.K32 G65 2001 AVAILABLE

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Louis Kahn

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Joseph Rykwert ; new photography by Roberto Schezen
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Book, H.N. Abrams, 2001
Description
Published on the centenary of his birth, Louis Kahn lauds the lifework of this master American architect, a figure whose importance has only increased since his death in 1974. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Kahn, Louis I., · 1901-1974 · Criticism and interpretation · Architecture · United States · 20th century · Rykwert, Joseph, 1926- · Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974
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Louis I. Kahn : Unbuilt Masterworks

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Kent Larson ; foreword by Vincent Scully ; afterword by William J. Mitchell
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Book, Monacelli Press, 2000
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Kahn, Louis I., · 1901-1974 · Criticism and interpretation · Architectural drawing · 20th century · United States · Larson, Kent · Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974
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Louis I. Kahn : The Library At Phillips Exeter Academy

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by Glenn E. Wiggins
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Book, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1997
Description
The disc includes: * video clips of the library’s exterior and interior * animated plans and sections * hundreds of exterior and interior color photographs * audio explanations by the author * archival audio recordings of Kahn’s lectures * illustrated descriptions of five other projects by Kahn System Requirements: Macintosh??: 68040 or Power PC processor; (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Kahn, Louis I., · 1901-1974 · Criticism and interpretation · Phillips Exeter Academy. · Library · Buildings · Academic libraries · New Hampshire · Exeter · Library architecture · Exeter (N.H.) · Buildings, structures, etc · Wiggins, Glenn E
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(UPPER LEVEL) Z733.P57 W54 1997 AVAILABLE

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Louis I. Kahn : The Idea Of Order

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Klaus-Peter Gast ; with forewords by Harmen H. Ties and Anne Griswold Tyng
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Book, Birkhäuser Verlag, 1998
Description
Presentations and analyses of Kahn’s essential realized buildings are the focal point of this book, from the early work, which has gained recognition only in recent years, to the large-scale projects for the capital buildings of Bangladesh in Dhaka and the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad. Kahn’s distinctive modernism, exemplified in projects such as the Richards Laboratories in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, is traced to its most simple and basic geometric shapes and is developed in fascinating complexity. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Kahn, Louis I., · 1901-1974 · Criticism and interpretation · International style (Architecture) · Gast, Klaus-Peter
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Louis I. Kahn : In The Realm Of Architecture

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David B. Brownlee, David G. De Long ; introduction by Vincent Scully ; new photography by Grant Mudford
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Book, Museum of Contemporary Art, 1991
Description
Here is the detailed account of the architecture and philosophy of Louis Kahn, whose buildings have become the very signature of the modernist aesthetic and whose vision permanently changed the direction of American architecture. Extraordinary, exclusively commissioned color photographs of his masterworks– the Yale Center for British Art, the National Assembly complex at Dhaka, Bangladesh, the Kimbell Art Museum, the Indian Institute of Management, the Salk Institute– exquisitely demonstrate how Kahn’s architecture wholly reinvents space and light. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Kahn, Louis I., · 1901-1974 · Criticism and interpretation · Architecture · United States · 20th century · Brownlee, David Bruce · De Long, David Gilson, 1939- · Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.) · Philadelphia Museum of Art
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OVERSIZE (UPPER) NA737.K32 B76 1991 AVAILABLE

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The Art Museums Of Louis I. Kahn

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Patricia Cummings Loud ; foreword by Michael P. Mezzatesta
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Book, Published by Duke University Press in association with Duke University Museum of Art, 1989
Description
The art museum has become a prestige commission for contemporary architects, and for several decades reference has been made to a ?museum building boom.? After a brief look at the development of a tradition in museum architecture, this study examines Kahn?s three art museums: the Yale University Art Gallery, the Kimbell Art Museum, and the Yale Center for British Art. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Kahn, Louis I., · 1901-1974 · Exhibitions · Criticism and interpretation · Art museum architecture · United States · Architecture · 20th century · Loud, Patricia Cummings · Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974 · Duke University. Museum of Art
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