Includes bibliographical references (pages 508-509) and "Index of illustrations."
Contents:
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.
Subject Terms:
Kahn, Louis I., 1901–1974 -- Criticism and interpretation. | Architectural drawing. | Architectural drawing -- Pictorial works. | ARCHITECTURE / General. | Kahn, Louis I., 1901–1974. | Architectural drawing.
Form/Genre:
Pictorial works. | Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Contributors:
Kahn, Louis I., 1901–1974, architect. | Merrill, Michael, Dr.-Ing, editor, contributor.