Kahn, Louis I. (1901-1974); Edited and Designed by Richard Saul Wurman and Eugene Feldman

The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn. Edited and Designed by Richard Saul Wurman and Eugene Feldman. First Edition

Philadelphia: The Falcon Press : distributed by Wittenborn, New York City, 1962. Folio. 28 x 38cm. Original linen binding, slightly discolored and warped. Some fold-out plates and some pribted in 2 colors..The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn, originally published in 1962 and long out of print, was the first book on the architect to feature Kahn’s own images and words—and it was Kahn’s favorite book on his work. It includes his early sketches, reproduced at full size, from his European travels in the 1950s as well as renderings of the designs for several of his notable buildings, along with unpublished speeches and excerpts from lectures, radio broadcasts, and other sources... Physical Description: [83] p. : ill. port. plans ; OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 1397329651. .

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Kahn, Louis I ; Richard Saul Wurman; Eugene Feldman

The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn

Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 1973. Hardcover. Tan cloth boards with gilt decoration. Unnumbered pages. Many bw illustrations. "This book is a collection of drawings by a master architect - Louis I. Kahn. The vigor and perception manifest in his buildings and teachings are mirrored in his conceptual drawings.The book is divided into two sections. First is a group of sketches produced during his European travels, here reproduced actual size. The second consists of early sketches as well as finished renderings of Lou Kahn's buildings and visions. They are arranged as close to chronological order as overlapping projects allow. Good+ some dirtying to cloth and wear from shelf, pages excellent .

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Keywords: American Architecture ; Kahn, Louis I. ; ; Architects and Firms - American

WURMAN, RICHARD SAUL; AND EUGENE FELDMAN

The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn

NY, Falcon Press. 1962, 1st. Hard, Folio. First edition, limited to 1,800 numbered copies. Number 612. Published NY: Falcon Press, 1962, first printing. Large folio, 11 1/4" x 15 1/2", 75 drawings including 42 full page plates, many double and four-fold plates. Cream linen cloth with gilt spine titles, gilt cover motif of trees after Kahn design, gray pictorial endpapers of movement pattern. Some wear at the spine ends and tips, closed tear at the lower front outer hinge cloth, mild edge darkening to the cloth. Binding strong, pages clean and bright. Very good. Scarce. Very Good/No Jacket.

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