Between silence and light : spirit in the architecture of Louis I. Kahn
Looks at Louis Kahn's buildings including the Exeter Library and the Salk Institute as well as examining his impact on contemporary architecture and presenting his theories concerning the relationship between human consciousness and building design
Print Book, English, 1979
Shambhala : Distributed in the U.S. by Random House, Boulder, 1979
Lectures
120 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
9780394506258, 9780394736877, 9780877731481, 9780877731504, 0394506251, 0394736877, 0877731489, 0877731500
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I. Silence and light: Louis Kahn's words : Joy ; Touch, sight ; Wonder ; Realization, intuition ; The unmeasurable and the measurable ; Knowledge ; Order ; Silence and light ; Light ; Singularity ; Making something ; Form and design ; Place ; Space ; Structure ; The plan ; The garden and the room ; Materials ; The wall, the column ; Institutions ; Architecture ; The architect ; The teacher ; Time beyond time ; Why architecture?
II. Architecture as spirit
III. Some of Louis Kahn's buildings : Alfred Newton Richards Medical Research Building ; Salk Institute for Biological Studies ; Salk Institute Community Center ; Sher-E-Bangla-Nagar, master plan ; National Assembly Hall, Sher-E-Bangla-Nagar ; Kimball Art Museum ; Library, Phillips Exeter Academy ; Yale Center fro British Art and Studies
IV. Appendices : Biographical note on Louis I. Kahn ; Biographical note on John Lobell. Library, Phillips Exeter Academy. Exeter, New Hampshire. 1967-72. p. 100-[105]. ill., plans, section