本书以照片的形式展示了路易斯•卡恩独立设计的每一座建筑,这些都是这位建筑师最伟大的成就。
本书重点介绍了二十多座由路易斯•康独自设计的建筑。从他的家乡费城到孟加拉国的中心地带,康的建筑反映了他对科学、数学、历史和自然的迷恋。由**建筑摄影师Cemal Emden拍摄的全新室内外照片展现了康的美学特征。
This photographic tour of every one of the buildings designed solely by Louis Kahn represents the architect’s greatest accomplishments.
This book focuses on over twenty buildings that were designed solely by Louis Kahn. From his native city of Philadelphia to the heart of Bangladesh, Kahn’s architecture reflected his fascination with science, mathematics, history, and nature. Striking new interior and exterior photographs by esteemed architectural photographer Cemal Emden reveal the characteristic features of Kahn’s aesthetic: juxtaposed materials, repetition of line and shape and geometric precision. Also evident is the way Kahn’s designs flourish in a variety of settings
—religious, governmental, educational, and residential. The book gives close attention to Kahn’s most iconic buildings, including Erdman Hall at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania; the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad; the Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in Dhaka, Bangladesh; and the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut, as well as a cluster of residences he designed in the Philadelphia area. Chapter openers written by architecture professor Caroline Maniaque, an introduction by academic Jale Erzen and an extensive chronology by academic Zekiye Abali, as well as a selection of Kahn’s most insightful statements complete this book, which allows for a rich understanding of Kahn’s architectural ingenuity.







