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Louis I. Kahn : beyond time and style : a life in architecture / Carter Wiseman.

by Wiseman, Carter.

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W.W. Norton, c2007.

Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974.

Architects -- United States -- Biography.

Architecture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Table of contents only

9780393731651 (hardcover)

0393731650 (hardcover)

284 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-277) and index.

1. Arrival : Estonia, the northern liberties, and Penn (1901-24) -- 2. To change the world : the lean years (1924-47) -- 3. Academia and emergence : the Yale University Art Gallery (1951-53) -- 4. Back home to Philadelphia : the Richards Medical Research Building (1957-65) -- 5. The client connection : the Salk Institute for Biological Studies (1959-65) -- 6. "A degree of utter purity" : the subcontinent (1962-83) -- 7. A "temple for learning" : the Phillips Exeter Academy Library (1965-72) -- 8. Light unleashed : the Kimbell Art Museum (1966-72) -- 9. The moth and the butterfly : the Yale Center for British Art (1969-74).

"Now ranked with Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe, Louis I. Kahn restored a reverence for history to modern arthitecture, while combining both into his own contemporary idiom." "This biographical study of the architect who fundamentally redefined twentieth-century architecture draws on more than one hundred interviews with colleagues, coworkers, clients, and family members and is illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs documenting the uniquely American rise of a poor immigrant to the pinnacle of the architectural world."--BOOK JACKET.

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