Louis I. Kahn: Beyond Time and Style: A Life in Architecture
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one hundred interviews with colleagues, coworkers, clients, and family members and illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs this book documents the uniquely American rise of a poor immigrant to the pinnacle of the international architectural world.\ It...
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The first in-depth biographical study of the brilliant but elusive architect who fundamentally redefined twentieth-century architecture.
Introduction 6Arrival: Estonia, the Northern Liberties, and Penn (1901-24) 12To Change the World: The Lean Years (1924-47) 28Academia and Emergence: The Yale University Art Gallery (1947-53) 54Back Home to Philadelphia: The Richards Medical Research Building (1957-64) 82The Client Connection: The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (1959-65) 106"A Degree of Utter Purity": The Subcontinent (1962-83) 136A "Temple for Learning": The Phillips Exeter Academy Library (1965-72) 180Light Unleashed: The Kimbell Art Museum (1966-72) 206The Moth and the Butterfly: The Yale Center for British Art (1969-74) 236Epilogue 264Notes 269Acknowledgments 278Index 279
