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Louis Kahn: Drawing to Find Out: Designing the Dominican Motherhouse
Michael Merrill (Ed.)
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Description for Louis Kahn: Drawing to Find Out: Designing the Dominican Motherhouse
Hardback. An ideal introduction to Kahn's thinking. Over two hundred drawings, most published for the first time in a generous, high-quality volume. A narrative in drawings sheds light on a profound culture of designing. Num Pages: 240 pages, 160. BIC Classification: AMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 306 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1678.
Like few others, Louis Kahn cultivated the craft of drawing as a means to architecture. His personal design drawings - seen either as a method of discovery or for themselves - are unique in the twentieth century. Over two hundred - mostly unpublished - drawings by Kahn and his associates are woven together with a lively and informed commentary into an intimate biography of an architectural idea. Unfolding around the iconic project for the Dominican Motherhouse (1965 - 69) the drawings form a narrative which not only reveals the richness and hidden dimensions of this unbuilt masterpiece, but provides compelling ... Read more
Like few others, Louis Kahn cultivated the craft of drawing as a means to architecture. His personal design drawings - seen either as a method of discovery or for themselves - are unique in the twentieth century. Over two hundred - mostly unpublished - drawings by Kahn and his associates are woven together with a lively and informed commentary into an intimate biography of an architectural idea. Unfolding around the iconic project for the Dominican Motherhouse (1965 - 69) the drawings form a narrative which not only reveals the richness and hidden dimensions of this unbuilt masterpiece, but provides compelling ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Lars Muller Publishers Switzerland
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Baden, Switzerland
ISBN
9783037782217
SKU
V9783037782217
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About Michael Merrill (Ed.)
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.
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