Louis Kahn:Essential Writings Pa
by Kahn,LouisEdition: 00
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Pub. Date: 2003-10-17
Publisher(s): W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary
This unique anthology draws from Louis Kahn's speeches, essays, and interviews, some never previously published, to capture the evolution and central tenets of the influential American architect's thinking from his early work of the 1940s to his death in 1974. Professor Twombly's introduction and headnotes offer incisive commentary on the texts.
Table of Contents
| PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 7 | (2) | |
| INTRODUCTION: KAHN'S SEARCH | 9 | (12) | |
| 1. Monumentality (1944) | 21 | (11) | |
| 2. An Approach to Architectural Education (1956) | 32 | (5) | |
| 3. Talk at the Conclusion of the Otterlo Congress (1959) | 37 | (25) | |
| 4. Form and Design (1960) | 62 | (13) | |
| 5. The New Art of Urban Design: Are We Equipped? (1960) | 75 | (6) | |
| ILLUSTRATIONS | 81 | (16) | |
| 6. Discussion in Kahn's Office (1961) | 97 | (22) | |
| 7. The Nature of Nature (1961) | 119 | (4) | |
| 8. Law and Rule in Architecture (1961, 1962) | 123 | (28) | |
| 9. Lecture at International Design Conference, Aspen, Colorado (1962) | 151 | (11) | |
| 10. Lecture at Yale University (1963) | 162 | (7) | |
| 11. Lecture at a Conference on "Medicine in the Year 2000" (1964) | 169 | (16) | |
| 12. Conversation with Karl Linn (1965) | 185 | (12) | |
| 13. Lecture to the Boston Society of Architects (1966) | 197 | (23) | |
| 14. Space and the Inspirations (1967) | 220 | (8) | |
| 15. Silence and Light (1968, 1969) | 228 | (24) | |
| 16. The Room, the Street, and Human Agreement (1971) | 252 | (9) | |
| 17. Address to Naturalized Citizens (1971) | 261 | (5) | |
| 18. Lecture at Pratt Institute (1973) | 266 | (15) | |
| FOR FURTHER READING | 281 | (2) | |
| INDEX | 283 |
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