Louis Kahn: On the Thoughtful Making of Spaces: The Dominican Motherhouse and a Modern Culture of Space

by Michael Merrill and Louis Kahn

It was not by chance that Louis Kahn's move into his profession's spotlight coincided with the crisis of modern architecture: representing, as his work increasingly did, those aspects of space which modernism had so ambitiously removed from its program. Kahn's rethinking of modern architecture's paradigm of space belongs to his most important contributions to the m?tier. In tracing the genesis of the unbuilt project for the Dominican Motherhouse (1965-69),...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303778220X
• ISBN13: 9783037782200
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.4"