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Robert McCarterPublication Details
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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)Subject
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Contents
- Development of an architectural philosophy
- Rediscovering an architecture of mass and structure
- Shaping an architecture of light and shadow
- Inspired compositions in the poetics of action
- Precise experiments in the poetics of construction
- Unbuilt offerings: in the spaces of eternity
ISBN
- 0714840459
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