Louis Kahn Drawing to Find Out : Designing the Dominican Motherhouse and the Patient Search for Architecture (Record no. 46953)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9783037782217
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 720.92 MER
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Merrill, Michael
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Louis Kahn Drawing to Find Out : Designing the Dominican Motherhouse and the Patient Search for Architecture
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Lars Muller Publishers
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2010
Place of publication, distribution, etc Baden, Switzerland
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 239
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Like few others, Louis Kahn cultivated the craft of drawing as a means to architecture. His personal design drawings - seen either as a method of discovery or for themselves - are unique in the twentieth century. Over two hundred - mostly unpublished - drawings by Kahn and his associates are woven together with a lively and informed commentary into an intimate biography of an architectural idea. Unfolding around the iconic project for the Dominican Motherhouse (1965 - 69) the drawings form a narrative which not only reveals the richness and hidden dimensions of this unbuilt masterpiece, but provides compelling insights into Louis Kahn's mature culture of designing. Kahn - long considered an architects' architectA" - emerges as a vivid and instructive guide, provoking reflection on questions which continue to remain relevant: on how works are conceived, on how they might be perceived, on how they become part of human experience. Fascinating not only in their beauty, the drawings open a new and stimulating perspective on one of the past century's great architects.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Architecture
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Koha item type Book
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