Author: Marcus, George H.
Title: The Houses of Louis Kahn
Description: New Haven, Yale University Press, 2013. Hardcover. Brown casebound book. There is a dust jacket with the title in white down a black spine. Pages: (7), viii-x, (1), 2-269. Profusely illustated with a majority color photos. "Beginning with his earliest encounters with Modernism in the late 1920s and continuing through his iconic work of the 1960s and 1970s, the authors trace the evolution of the architect's thinking, which began and matured through his design of houses and their interiors, a process inspired by his interactions with clients and his admiration for vernacular building traditions. Richly illustrated with new and period photographs and original drawings, as well as previously unpublished materials from personal interviews, archives, and Kahn's own writings, The Houses of Louis Kahn shows how his ideas about domestic spaces challenged conventions, much like his major public commissions, and were developed into one of the most remarkable expressions of the American house." Contents are as follows: Prologue -- Home -- Houses -- Furnishings -- Epilogue -- [Houses] : Jesse and Ruth Oser House ; Philip and Jocelyn Roche House ; Morton and Lenore Weiss House ; Samuel and Ruth Genel House ; Fred and Elaine Clever House ; Bernard and Norma Shapiro House ; Margaret Esherick House ; Norman and Doris Fisher House ; Steven and Toby Korman House. VG/VG: Exlibrary book. Stamp on half-title page. Stamp and sticker on back pasted end page.

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


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