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Michael Merrill
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Louis Kahn: Drawing to Find Out: Designing the Dominican Motherhouse |
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German (Switzerland) |
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Hardcover |
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240 |
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2010-09-01 |
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3037782218 |
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Lars Muller |
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3.7 pounds |
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11.57 x 1.18 x 9.61 inches |
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Product Description
Like few others, Louis Kahn cultivated the craft of drawing as a means to architecture. His personal design drawings - seen either as a method of discovery or for themselves - are unique in the twentieth century. Over two hundred - mostly unpublished - drawings by Kahn and his associates are woven together with a lively and informed commentary into an intimate biography of an architectural idea. Unfolding around the iconic project for the Dominican Motherhouse (1965 - 69) the drawings form a narrative which not only reveals the richness and hidden dimensions of this unbuilt masterpiece, but provides compelling insights into Louis Kahn's mature culture of designing. Kahn - long considered an architects' architect" - emerges as a vivid and instructive guide, provoking reflection on questions which continue to remain relevant: on how works are conceived, on how they might be perceived, on how they become part of human experience. Fascinating not only in their beauty, the drawings open a new and stimulating perspective on one of the past century's great architects.
'While drawing, I'm always waiting for something to happen. I don't want it to happen too quickly, though.' - Louis Kahn
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