Born in Estonia 1901 and brought to America in 1906, the architect Louis Kahn grew up in poverty in Philadelphia. By the time of his mysterious death in 1974, he was widely recognized as one of the greatest architects of his era. Yet this enormous reputation was based on only a handful of masterpieces, all built during the last fifteen years of his life. Wendy Lesser’s You Say ...(展开全部)

Born in Estonia in 1901, Louis Isidore Kahn was to become one of the United States' most important architects of the post-war period, alongside the Modern masters Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier. Although renowned for a number of seminal modern works, he came to question many of the precepts of the Modern Movement. In particular, he questioned the ability of ...(展开全部)

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.

This remains one of the most important scholarly and illustrative examinations of Kahn's life work and his philosophy of architecture. Photographs and descriptive analysis are followed by a biographical chronology of the architect's life and a complete list of his buildings and projects from 1925 to 1974. The primary texts critically address different dimensions and periods of ...(展开全部)

This remains one of the most important scholarly and illustrative examinations of Kahn's life work and his philosophy of architecture. Photographs and descriptive analysis are followed by a biographical chronology of the architect's life and a complete list of his buildings and projects from 1925 to 1974. The primary texts critically address different dimensions and periods of ...(展开全部)

[英]莉兹·延森（Liz Jensen）1959年出生于英国，第一本小说是《方舟之子》，此书入选“卫报小说奖”；第二本小说是《食纸人》；她还著有《蛋舞》和《家里的战争罪行》，后者入选“柑橘奖”，后改编为舞台剧。 《路易的第九条命》的灵感得自于她的祖母和叔叔。1930年，叔叔因为与祖母争吵后，从家庭聚会中失踪，祖母为了寻找儿子，最后跳下悬崖。英国老牌周报《傍不雅者》的副总编辑罗德·利德尔说：“莉兹·延森是最杰出的女性小说家。”

Louis Kahn (1901-1974), a practitioner of international modernism, sought the spiritual in his powerful forms and encouraged his students to seek the essential nature of architecture. His Philadelphia-based practice was responsible for the Richards Medical Research building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Yale Art Gallery extension in New Haven, the Kimbell Art Museum in For...(展开全部)

This condensed edition of Louis I. Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture is a definitive and richly illustrated volume that presents the oeuvre of one of this century's most influential practitioners, teachers, and thinkers in architecture. Here is the detailed account of the architecture and philosophy of Louis Kahn, whose buildings have become the very signature of the modernist...(展开全部)

This condensed edition of Louis I. Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture is a definitive and richly illustrated volume that presents the oeuvre of one of this century's most influential practitioners, teachers, and thinkers in architecture. Here is the detailed account of the architecture and philosophy of Louis Kahn, whose buildings have become the very signature of the modernist...(展开全部)