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Subtitle: the travel sketches of Louis I. Kahn
By: Eugene J. Johnson, Michael J. Lewis ; with an essay and site photographs by Ralph Lieberman.
Contributors: Lewis, Michael J., 1957-; Lieberman, Ralph.; Williams College. Museum of Art.; Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.); Art Institute of Chicago.
Publisher: Williams College Museum of Art; MIT Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Williamstown, Mass; Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974 -- Sketchbooks, notebooks, etc. -- Exhibitions.; Architecture -- Europe -- Exhibitions.; Architecture -- Egypt -- Exhibitions.
Description: This exhibition design comprises a contemplative space, enhancing the quiet monumentality of Kahn’s drawings, as well as reflecting his own preoccupations with symmetry, walls, and their openings. The four trips within the show were arranged chronological in intimate roomlike spaces, color-coded to evoke an atmosphere appropriate to their location: storm blue for New England, saturated yellow for Greece, etc. The color band, which narrows one’s focus within the tall gallery and on which all works were hung, was continuous throughout a single trip, and broke between trips, instilling a sense of travel through time and space. Windows framed important works, allowing them to be seen twice, in two contexts, as well as allowing views of a “peopled” space.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 135).
Exhibitions: Williams College Museum of Art, Apr. 6-June 9, 1996; Jewish Museum, New York; Art Institute of Chicago.