Louis Kahn: Drawing to Find Out

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ISBN: 9783037782217
English edition
Lars Müller Publishers
Hardcover, 240 pages
30 x 24 cm
illustrated
September 2010
€59,00 (excl. VAT)

Louis Kahn: Drawing to Find Out

The Dominican Motherhouse and the Patient Search for Architecture

Michael Merrill

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 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. Fascinating not only in their beauty, the drawings open a new and stimulating perspective on one of the past century’s great architects.