Drawn from the Source The Travel Sketches of Louis I Kahn

Name: Drawn from the Source The Travel Sketches of Louis I Kahn
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ISBN: 9780262600262

ISBN-10: 0262600269

ISBN-13: 9780262600262

Edition: 1996

Authors: Eugene J. Johnson, Michael J. Lewis

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with an essay and site photographs by Ralph Lieberman Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974) was among the most highly regarded twentieth-century architects, yet the relationship of his haunting travel sketches to his work has not been systematically explored until now. Drawn from the Sourceshows how Kahn's encounters with the great buildings of the past influenced his own architecture, and how monuments such as the Salk Institute and the Kimbell Art Museum employ natural materials and natural light to create a sense of permanence and communal space inspired by buildings far removed in time and place. Drawn from the Sourcedescribes Kahn's journeys to Europe and Asia in 1928-1929, 1951, and 1959,…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 5/2/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 11.00" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Eugene J. Johnson is a Professor of Art at Williams College as well as Curator of the Williams College Museum of Art. He received his PhD at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.



Director's Foreword and Acknowledgments


Lenders to the Exhibition


Kahn's Graphic Modernism


Color Plates


Sketching Abroad


In the Footprints of the Master: The Photographic Campaign


Exhibition Checklist


Notes


Select Bibliography


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