Louis I. Kahn: The Last Notebook
Language: English
Published by Lars Müller Publishers Mär 2024, 2024
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Neuware -Honoring the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Louis Kahn in March 1974, this facsimile edition exquisitely reproduces the notebook in which the renowned American architect sketched and wrote during his travels in the last year of his life.Anchored by a magnificent set of drawings illustrating the final design of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park in New York City (1973/74, posthumously completed in 2012), 'Louis I. Kahn: The Last Notebook' provides an intimate glimpse into the architect's mind and design process. These private sketches and poetic reflections reveal Kahn's spiritual understanding of architecture as inclusive of our total environment and shed new light on the architect's influential philosophy for designing, building and conceiving architecture.The facsimile pays close attention to the material qualities of the original notebook, replicating its delicate, transparent paper. Made widely available for the first time, the publication includes transcriptions of Kahn's handwriting by Sue Ann Kahn and a commentary by architectural critic and historian Michael J. Lewis.Continuing on from earlier investigations into the importance of drawing in the iconic architect's work at Lars Müller Publishers, 'Louis I. Kahn: The Last Notebook' replicates sketching in its most raw, pure form.; Zu Ehren des fünfzigsten Todestages von Louis Kahn im März 1974 präsentiert diese Faksimile-Ausgabe das Notizbuch, in dem der berühmte amerikanische Architekt während der Reisen in seinem letzten Lebensjahr skizzierte und schrieb.Das Herzstück des Notizbuches bildet eine Serie grossartiger Zeichnungen, die Kahns Entwurfsprozess zum Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park in New York City (1973/74, posthum 2012 fertiggestellt) veranschaulichen. Das Büchlein ermöglicht einen vertieften Einblick in die Gedankenwelt des Architekten; die persönlichen Skizzen und poetischen Reflexionen offenbaren Kahns spirituelles Verständnis von Architektur als Teil unserer gesamten Umwelt und werfen ein neues Licht auf seine einflussreiche Philosophie rund um Entwurf, Bau und Konzeption in der Architektur.Der Nachdruck reproduziert originalgetreu das feine, transparente Papier des Originals. Der schmale Begleitband präsentiert die durch Sue Ann Kahn transkribierte Handschrift Louis Kahns und enthält einen Kommentar des Architekturkritikers und Historikers Michael J. Lewis zum Roosevelt Denkmal. 'Louis I. Kahn: The Last Notebook' gibt die Skizzen des Meisters in ihrer einfachsten und reinsten Form wieder und knüpft so an frühere Untersuchungen zur Zeichnung in Louis Kahns ikonischem Werk bei Lars Müller Publishers an. 192 pp. Englisch.…
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- Title
- Louis I. Kahn: The Last Notebook
- Author
- Michael J. Lewis
- Publisher
- Lars Müller Publishers Mär 2024
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- Neu
- Binding
- Buch
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 303778752X
- ISBN 13
- 9783037787526
- Item weight
- 407 grams
- Dimensions
- 216x152x20 mm
An intimate record of Kahn's musings on design, coupled with preparatory drawings of his monumental last project
Published in honor of the 50th anniversary of his death in March 1974, this volume is a facsimile of the notebook in which Louis Kahn drew and wrote during his last year of life. Anchored by a magnificent set of preparatory drawings for his monument of Franklin Roosevelt in New York City, the notebook provides an intimate glimpse into private sketches of Kahn's final projects and his poetic reflections on thematic preoccupations, such as "Silence to Light," "Form and Design," "Society of Rooms" and "Desire to Express." Scholarly commentary and transliterations accompany all of his musings.
Born in Estonia, Louis Kahn (1901-74) immigrated with his family to Philadelphia when he was four years old. Kahn received Beaux-Arts training at the University of Pennsylvania, under the French-educated Paul Philippe Cret, and then adopted his own idiosyncratic modernism, which would engender the heterogeneous "Philadelphia school." His architectural career did not take off until later in life; he attained his first major commission to design Yale University's Art Gallery in 1951. Upon its completion, Kahn received many international commissions, and he developed a signature style that was monumental, monolithic and transparent in its functionality. He was awarded the AIA Gold Medal and the RIBA Gold Medal.
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