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

Wiseman, Carter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393731650 ISBN 13: 9780393731651

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007

Synopsis

The first in-depth biographical study of the brilliant but elusive architect who fundamentally redefined twentieth-century 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one hundred interviews with colleagues, coworkers, clients, and family members and illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs, this book documents the uniquely American rise of a poor immigrant to the pinnacle of the international architectural world.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 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 Kahnís art, the book provides an invaluable portrait of the man who created it.

About this title

About the Author:

Carter Wiseman teaches history and criticism at the Yale School of architecture. He lives in Weston, Connecticut. He is also the author of Twentieth-Century American Architecture.

Review:

Not merely a collection of Kahn's architectural works....it gives...a richness and layering not usually associated with architecture books. (Urban Land, Howard Kozloff)
Louis I. Kahn is lavishly illustrated...and contributes the most comprehensive analysis of the architect's life and works to date. (DocoMomo, Olivia Klose)

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0393731650
• ISBN 13: 9780393731651
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 284