Louis I. Kahn: In the Realm of ArchitectureThis 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 Kahn's production. |
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Foreword and Acknowledgments | 7 |
Prologue | 15 |
The Mind Opens to Realizations | 50 |
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Ahmedabad Anne Tyng April architect architecture Arts Center assembly building auditorium August bathhouse Bicentennial Box LIK Box LIK 107 Box LIK 36 Bryn Mawr Bryn Mawr College building committee built central City Planning Community Center completed concrete construction Correspondence courtyard David David Wisdom December developed Dhaka dormitory drawings elevation entrance Erdman Exeter exhibition facade February geometry hall ibid Inscribed interview January Jewish July June Kahn Collection Kahn's design Kahn's office Kimbell Art Museum Kreeger laboratory Le Corbusier Letter light Louis Kahn March McBride meeting house memo Mikveh Israel modern monumental November October Pakistan parking Penn Center Pennsylvania Stonorov perspective Philadelphia hereafter cited Phillips Exeter Academy proposed Prown Richards roof rooms Salk Institute scheme September Six Million sketches space square Stonorov and Kahn Street structure studies synagogue theater towers Triangle Tyng unbuilt University of Pennsylvania walls Yale Art Gallery Yale University York