Louis I. Kahn: Beyond Time and Style: A Life in Architecture

by Carter Wiseman

Book Overview

Now ranked with Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe, Louis I. Kahn brought a reverence for history back into modern architecture while translating it into a uniquely contemporary idiom.

Drawing on more than one hundred interviews with colleagues, coworkers, clients, and family members and illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs, this book documents the uniquely American rise of a poor immigrant to the pinnacle...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393731650
• ISBN13: 9780393731651
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.9" x 9.5"