Isbn: 9781580930147 - louis i. kahn: unbuilt masterworks (8 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Cloth, dj. Minor edge wear to jacket. Top corner of rear board beginning to fray. Else fine. A very nice copy; internals are bright and clean. American architect Louis I. Kahn left behind a legacy of great buildings: the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California; the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas; and the Indian Institute for Management in Ahmedabad. Yet he also left behind an equally important legacy of designs that were never realized. This exceptional volume unites those unbuilt projects with the most advanced computer-graphics technology--the first fundamentally new tool for studying space since the development of perspective in the Renaissance--to create a beautiful and poignant vision of what might have been. Author Kent Larson has delved deep into Kahn's extensive archives to construct faithful computer models of a series of proposals the architect was not able to build: the U.S. Consulate in Luanda, Angola; the Meeting House of the Salk Institute in La Jolla; the Mikveh Israel Synagogue in Philadelphia; the Memorial to Six Million Jewish Martyrs in New York City; three proposals for the Hurva Synagogue in Jerusalem; and the Palazzo dei Congressi in Venice. The resulting computer-generated images present striking views of real buildings in real sites. Each detail is exquisitely rendered, from complex concrete textures to subtle interreflections and patterns of sunlight and shadow. Kahn's famous statement--I thought of wrapping ruins around buildings--is borne out by the views of his unbuilt works; his rigorous exploration of tactility and sensation, light and form, is equally evident. Complementing the new computer images is extensive archival material--rough preliminary drawings, finely delineated plans, and beautiful travel sketches. Larson also presents fascinating documentation of each project, often including correspondence with the clients that shows not only the deep respect accorded the architect but the complicated circumstances that sometimes made it impossible to bring a design to fruition. Not only a historical study of Kahn's unbuilt works, this volume is in itself an intriguing alternative history of architecture.…

hardcover. Zustand: near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: near fine. Foreword by Vincent Scully. Illustrated in color & in black & white. 232 pages. 4to, blue cloth, d.w. (New York): Monacelli Press, (2000). Some shelfwear, still near fine. Louis I. Kahn: (illustrator).

4°, hardcover, dustjacket. 232 pp Fine copy. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 0.

Hard cover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 224 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Very good in very good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. New York: The Monacelli Press, 2000. Hardcover with dustjacket. Fine condition, new and unused in the publishers original unopened shrinkwrap. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Zustand: gut. 2000. Louis I. Kahn. Unbuilt Masterworks. In englischer Sprache. pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The Monacelli Press: 2000. Quarto. Hardcover with a dust jacket. First edition. Blue boards with exceedingly minor rubbing along the edges. Book and unclipped jacket are both in near fine condition.