Originally published in 1975 as a memorial to the Kimbell Art Museum's architect, Louis I. Kahn, Light Is the Theme provides an extended expression of the major themes articulated in his design for the museum. The text consists solely of Kahn's own words and explores his innovative use of natural light and playful employment of materials, which achieve their most refined state in the Kimbell, widely regarded as the architect's crowning achievement and admired as one of the greatest museum buildings of the 20th century.
Marking the 40th anniversary of the Kimbell Art Museum, this is the first time this classic book, updated with a new bibliography and a foreword by director Eric M. Lee, has been available outside of the museum.

Light Is the Theme: Louis I. Kahn and the Kimbell Art Museum

Arts & Photography

Kahn, Louis

Johnson, Nell E.

Architecture

Kimbell Art Museum

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An in-depth study of Louis Kahn's unbuilt masterpiece as an introduction to an evolving paradigm of architectural space. It was not by chance that Louis Kahn's move into his profession's spotlight coincided with the crisis of modern architecture: representing, as his work increasingly did, those aspects of space which modernism had so ambitiously removed from its program. Kahn's rethinking of modern architecture's paradigm of space belongs to his most important contributions to the metier. In tracing the genesis of the unbuilt project for the Dominican Motherhouse (1965-69), we are given a close-up view of Kahn at work on a few fundamental questions of architectural space: seeking the sources of its meaning in its social, morphological, landscape and contextual dimensions. This rich and multivalent project opens the way to a second section, which sheds new light on several major works in a timely reappraisal of Kahn's work. The result of extensive research, illustrated with unpublished archival material and new analytic drawings, this affordable volume is an indispensible companion to 'Louis Kahn: Drawing to Find Out.'

Louis Kahn: On the Thoughtful Making of Spaces: The Dominican Motherhouse and a Modern Culture of Space

Lars Müller Publishers

Der amerikanische Architekt Louis Kahn (1901-1974) gilt als einer der großen Baumeister des 20. Jahrhunderts. Mit komplexen Raumkompositionen, einer elementaren Formensprache und einer meisterhaften Licht-Choreographie schuf Kahn Bauten von archaischer Schönheit und universaler Symbolkraft. Zu seinen wichtigsten Werken gehören das Salk Institute im kalifornischen La Jolla (1959-65), das Kimbell Art Museum im texanischen Fort Worth (1966-72), das Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad (1962-74) und das Parlament von Bangladesch in Dhaka (1962-83). Mit dem Buch "Louis Kahn – The Power of Architecture" liegt seit zwanzig Jahren erstmals wieder eine umfende Publikation über den Architekten vor, die alle wichtigen Projekte vorstellt und mit wissenschaftlichen Essays herausragender Kahn-Kenner Aufschluss über Inspirationen, Hintergründe und Einfluss von Kahns Werk gibt und den aktuellen Stand der Forschung widerspiegelt. Zu den Autoren zählen namhafte Kunst- und Architekturhistoriker wie Stanislaus von Moos, William J. R. Curtis, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen oder Neil Levine. Themen sind unter anderem Kahns Pionierrolle im Betonbau, die visionären Stadtplanungen für seine Heimatstadt Philadelphia, seine Jahre an der Yale University und der Austausch mit Josef Albers sowie Kahns Bedeutung für die moderne Architektur in Südostasien. Eine umfende, bebilderte Biographie liefert zahlreiche neue Fakten und Einblicke in Leben und Werk Louis Kahns. In Interviews unterstreichen bekannte Architekten wie Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, Peter Zumthor oder Sou Fujimoto Kahns Bedeutung für den heutigen Architekturdiskurs. Ein umfangreicher Katalogteil zeigt Originalzeichnungen und Architekturmodelle aus dem Kahn-Archiv, viele davon erstmals in dieser Qualität.

LOUIS KAHN THE POWER OF ARCHITECTURE (ALLEMAND) /ALLEMAND

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