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Robert McCarter is a prominent architectural historian and practising architect, and Professor of Architecture at Washington University, St Louis. He is the author of Unity Temple and Fallingwater in Phaidon's Architecture in Detail series, and is author of the monograph Frank Lloyd Wright and the primer On and By Frank Lloyd Wright, also by Phaidon Press.
US architect Louis Kahn (1901-74) was one of the greatest influences on world architecture during the second half of the twentieth century. This monograph focuses on Kahn's major designs - from the Yale Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut, the Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, Phillips Exeter Library, Exeter, New Hampshire to the National Capital of Bangladesh and the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad - as well as a number of unfinished projects, in order to understand his work and philosophy
Louis I Kahn (190174) is one of the most influential architects of the mid-20th century, whose work marked a significant move away from International Modernism towards a monumental and expressive style / Now available in paperback, this in-depth and scholarly monograph provides the definitive account of the life and works of Louis I Kahn / Includes major buildings such as the Kimbell Art Museum, the Yale Art Gallery and the Salk Institute, as well as the National Assembly Building, Dhaka, Bangladesh / Fully illustrated with photographs that convey the spirit and spatial qualities of Kahns buildings, as well as concept development portfolios with drawings and plans that reveal the inspiration and development behind each project / Contains a new comprehensive list of projects compiled by William Whitaker of the Louis I Kahn Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Archives, listing over 231 projects, at least 30 previously unattributed
CHAPTER 1 Development of an Architectural Philosophy: Modernism, Housing, Monumentality and History CHAPTER 2 Rediscovering an Architecture of Mass and Structure: Yale Art Gallery, Jewish Community Center, University of Pennsylvania Medical Research Towers CHAPTER 3 Shaping an Architecture of Light and Shadow: Tribune Review Building, US Angolan Consulate, First Unitarian Church, Salk Institute for Biological Studies CHAPTER 4 Inspired Compositions in the Poetics of Action: Bryn Mawr Dormitory, Indian Institute of Management, Bangladesh National Capital, Dominican Motherhouse CHAPTER 5 Precise Experiments in the Poetics of Construction: Exeter Library and Dining Hall, Fort Wayne Performing Arts Center, Kimbell Art Museum, Yale Center for British Art CHAPTER 6 Unbuilt Offerings: In the Spaces of Eternity; Mikveh Israel Synogogue, Memorial to Six Million Jewish Martyrs, Hurva Synagogue, Palazzo dei Congressi, New York Roosevelt Memorial CONCLUSION
