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"Louis Kahn is perhaps the most important architect to emerge in the decades following World War II. In this book Sarah Williams Goldhagen dismantles the myths that have cast Kahn variously as a mystical neo-Platonist, a structural rationalist, a visionary champion of Beaux-Arts principles, or a rebel against modernism.
She demonstrates instead that Kahn's architecture is grounded in his deeply held modernist political, social, and artistic ideals, which guided him as he sought to rework modernism into a socially transformative architecture appropriate for the postwar world.".
"Goldhagen presents much new archival evidence about Kahn's buildings, his ideas, and his indebtedness to contemporary art and to the many socio-critical and architectural discourses of the postwar years. She offers fresh interpretations of many of his important buildings, including the Yale University Art Gallery and the National Assembly complex in Bangladesh, as well as of such previously understudied or misunderstood works as the Trenton Bathhouse and his AFL Medical Services building in Philadelphia.
Goldhagen then theorizes Kahn's architectural principles to show that he struggled with modernism rather than against it, reconceptualizing it into a singular and powerful new vocabulary that retains architectural and social relevance today."--BOOK JACKET.
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History, Criticism and interpretation, Architecture, Political and social views, Architecture, modern, 20th century, Architecture, united states, Kahn, louis i., 1901-1974, Architects and community, Architectural criticism, Criticism and interpretationkahn, louis i , 1901-1974, Political and social viewskahn, louis i , 1901-1974, Architecture--history, Architecture--united states--history--20th century, Na737.k32 g65 2001, 720/.92Edition | Availability |
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Louis Kahn's Situated Modernism
May 1, 2001, Yale University Press
Hardcover
in English
0300077866 9780300077865
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