Louis Kahn
Subtitle: the power of architecture
By: [editors, Mateo Kries, Jochen Eisenbrand, Stanislaus von Moos ; translations: Brian Currid, Barbara Hauss, Anna Stüler]
Contributors: Kries, Mateo, 1974-; Eisenbrand, Jochen; Moos, Stanislaus von; University of Pennsylvania. Architectural Archives; Vitra Design Museum; Nederlands Architectuurinstituut
Publisher: Vitra Design Museum
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Weil am Rhein
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9783931936921
Subjects: Exhibitions; Modern Architecture
Other titles: Power of architecture
Notes: Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Nederlands Architektuurinstituut, Rotterdam, September 8, 2012 - January 6, 2013; Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, March 9 - August 25, 2013; National Museum, Oslo, October 18, 2013 - January 26, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Essays. Chronology / William Whitaker; title: Monument? Forum? Fair? Louis Kahn, Edmund Bacon, and Philadelphia / Stanislaus von Moos; title: Between grid and pathway : the houses of Louis Kahn / Jochen Eisenbrand; title: Louis Kahn's art and his architectural thought / Michael Lewis; title: Portfolio, sketches and drawings; title: Kahn's edge : the provocative historicism of the Trenton Jewish Community Center / Neil Levine; title: Louis Kahn and the French connection / Kenneth Frampton; title: Toward cognitive architecture / Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen; title: Louis I. Kahn's building for three faiths : "Religion ... not a religion." / Susan G. Solomon; title: Enclosure : Kahn / Thomas Florschuetz; title: Mettre la nature en oeuvre / Florian Sauter; title: "Unavoidable nuisances:" engineering and engineers in the work of Louis Kahn / Thomas Leslie; title: Louis Kahn and the life of materials / Réjean Legault; title: Modern architecture and the excavation of the past / William J.R. Curtis.