Louis Kahn: on the Thoughtful Making of Spaces: The Dominican Motherhouse and a Modern Culture of Space - Softcover

Michael Merrill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 303778220X ISBN 13: 9783037782200

Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers, 2021

Synopsis

It was not by chance that Louis Kahn's move into his profession's spotlight coincided with the crisis of modern architecture: representing, as his work increasingly did, those aspects of space which modernism had so ambitiously removed from its program. Kahn's rethinking of modern architecture's paradigm of space belongs to his most important contributions to the metier. In tracing the genesis of the unbuilt project for the Dominican Motherhouse (1965-69), we are given a close-up view of Kahn at work on a few fundamental questions of architectural space: seeking the sources of its meaning in its social, morphological, landscape and contextual dimensions. This rich and multivalent project opens the way to a second section, which sheds new light on several of major works in a timely reappraisal of Kahn's work. The result of extensive research, illustrated with unpublished archival material and new analytic drawings, this affordable volume is an indispensible companion to 'Louis Kahn: Drawing to Find Out.'

About this title

Product Description:

In-depth study of Louis Kahn's unbuilt masterpiece as an introduction to an evolving paradigm of architectural space.

About the Author:

Michael Merrill , Dr.-Ing., is a practicing architect in the USA and Germany and assistant professor for Architectural Design at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers
• Publication date: 2021
• ISBN 10: 303778220X
• ISBN 13: 9783037782200
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320