Louis I. Kahn (Studio Paperback) (English and German Edition)

By Klaus-Peter Gast and Louis I. Kahn

1999 ist das Jahr des 25. Todestages von Louis Kahn. In der zweiten H?lfte des 20. Jahrhunderts hat das Entwerfen Louis Kahns eine herausragende Bedeutung f?1/4r die internationale Architektur. Kahn... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3764359641
• ISBN13: 9783764359645
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Birkhäuser
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.5" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Copiously illustrated review of 44 major works

This is a concise and copiously illustrated paperback survey on 192 pages of all major buildings and projects from 1935 to 1983 published under ISBN: 3764359641 by Birkhäuser (Basel...) and ISBN: 0817959641 by Birkhäuser (Boston) in English and German side by side. Following 8 page Introduction, each of the presented 44 works is headed by a description from as little as just a few lines to over a page long followed by illustrations from one to several depending on work's scope. All of several hundreds only B & W (many multi-picture) illustrations - many of them technical (plans, sections, sketches, elevations, etc.), but also B & W photos of a good quality - are well balanced, superbly crisp and perfectly legible. On several pages at the end, there are: a biography, selected bibliography, list of works, etc. on several pages. Like all from the Studio Paperback series, the book is solid among architectural monographs even of a bigger size. Similar to smaller books from the Works and Projects series published by Gustavo Gili (GG) in English and Spanish.