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Title(s):
Louis Kahn : the importance of a drawing / edited by Michael Merrill.
Additional Title(s):
Importance of a drawing
Published/Created:
Zurich : Lars Müller Publishers, [2021]
[New York] : Distributed in North America by Artbook/D.A.P.
©2021
Physical Description:
511 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, plans (some color), portraits ; 31 cm
Holdings:
Reference Library
NJ18.K13 A12 2021a (LC) Oversize
Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
Note: Please contact the Reference Library to schedule an appointment [Email ycba.reference@yale.edu]
Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/16225963
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 508-509) and "Index of illustrations."
"'The importance of a drawing is immense, because it is the architect's language.' Louis Kahn to his master class, 1967." --Page 2. Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974) was one of the most significant architects of the twentieth century and his influence is present today in ways both profound and subtle. Unlike previous publications on Kahn, which have focused on his built work and which considered the drawings foremost as illustrations of these, this is the first in-depth study of drawings as primary sources of insight into Kahn's architecture and creative imagination. By offering a spectrum of close readings of drawings by Kahn and his associates in a series of incisive and richly illustrated essays, this book is at once an intimate artistic portrait of this important architect and a provocative and timely contribution to the current discourse on representation in architecture. For architects and students of architecture, Kahn's lasting significance is not only in the buildings he built, but in how he designed them. Based on unprecedented archival research, engagingly presented by a group of eminent scholars and architects, and lavishly illustrated with over 600 highest quality reproductions, 'The Importance of a Drawing' is destined to become a standard work in the literature on Louis Kahn.
Subject Terms:
Architectural drawing -- Pictorial works.
Architectural drawing.
Architectural drawing.
ARCHITECTURE / General.
Kahn, Louis I., 1901–1974 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Kahn, Louis I., 1901–1974.
Form/Genre:
Pictorial works.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Contributors:
Kahn, Louis I., 1901–1974, architect.
Merrill, Michael, Dr.-Ing, editor, contributor.
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  • Getting lost with Louis Kahn: a lesson from the archives / Michael Merrill
  • What Penn taught Kahn / Michael J. Lewis
  • The gift of being able to draw / Louis Kahn
  • Louis Kahn on Beaux-Arts training / Louis Kahn with William Jordy (1974)
  • The more one looks, the more one comes to see: Louis I. Kahn's "The Value and Aim in Sketching"
  • Drawing inward, projecting outward: further thoughts on the value and aim in sketching / Michael Merrill
  • The beginning of the beginning: Louis I. Kahn's site sketches at the Salk Institute / David Leatherbarrow
  • The color of light, the treasury of shadows / Sue Ann Kahn
  • Something that satisfies this, something that satisfies the other: toward a definition of a "Beautiful Plan" with Louis Kahn
  • The plan, a society of rooms: the houses
  • The plan, a society of rooms: the Meeting House of the Salk Institute
  • The plan, a society of rooms: the Dominican Motherhouse
  • Louis Kahn and the anatomy of the architectural section
  • The primacy of the section: the Kimbell Art Museum
  • Place, occasion, and the section: the Hurva Synagogue
  • On the depth and density of the section: the Library of the Phillips Exeter Academy
  • Embodiment, empathy, and estrangement: Louis Kahn's elevations
  • Plan and section, meeting and making place: the National Assembly in Dhaka
  • Louis Kahn's perspective drawings: between proof and nurture
  • Parallel projections: Louis Kahn and the "Anti-perspective" / Michael Merrill
  • "The arsenal of the tools" / William Whitaker
  • Louis Kahn and the act of drawing: some recollections / Marshall D. Meyers (1978)
  • The manner in which we have made the work: echoes from the drafting room / Louis Kahn and his associates
  • Land architecture, a great conversation / excerpts from a conversation with Harriet Pattison
  • Growth or composition? Colin Rowe to Louis Kahn / Michael Merrill
  • One, two, three, ... Louis, I., Kahn / Michael Benedikt
  • Kahn and composition / David Van Zanten
  • Making a room, drawing a plan: construing architecture as a society of spaces / Robert McCarter
  • Drawing an architecture of connection: Louis Kahn on stairs / Louis Kahn
  • Drawing between part and whole: the Tribune Review building / Michael Merrill
  • The book of crazy boats / Nathaniel Kahn
  • An offering / Michael Cadwell
  • Drawing (on) walls / Jane Murphy
  • Drawings that question and explain: Louis Kahn and the cognitive art of the diagram
  • Drawing theory: the room, the street, the city
  • Graphic architecture: a lithograph for Lynne Honickman / Michael Merrill
  • Redrawing to know: geometric descriptions of the City Tower / Richard Wesley
  • The drawn and the built: Louis Kahn's memorial to President Franklin D. Roosevelt / Gina Pollara
  • The last drawings: March 13-17, 1974
  • Epilogue: Louis Kahn and the - continued - importance of a drawing / Michael Merrill.