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100 _aLobell, John
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245 _aLouis Kahn : Architecture as Philosophy
260 _aNew York
_bMonacelli Press
_c2020
300 _a195,iip.
505 _aContents 0.1. Preface 6 0.2. Introduction 12 1.0. ARCHITECTURE AS PHILOSOPHY 16 1.1. Two Approaches 1.2. The Beaux Arts 1.3. Modern Architecture 1.4. What They Mean 1.5. Mid-Twentieth-Century Architecture 2.0. KAHN'S ANALYSIS 26 2.1. Dissatisfaction 2.2. The Rejection of Monumentality 2.3. A Return of Monumentality? 2.4. Order Instead of Monumentality 2.5. Architecture as the Art of Institutions 2.6. Form and Design 2.7. Materials 2.8. Building as Vocabulary 2.9. Existence Wills 2.10. Another Modern Architecture 2.11. Essential ism 3.0 THEMES IN KAHN'S ARCHITECTURE 42 3.1. Backgrounds 3.2. Plan 3.2.1. Rejection of the Flexible Plan 3.2.2. Served and Servant Spaces 3.2.3. The Plan as the Giver of Meaning 3.2.4. Relational Hierarchy 3.2.5. Centers of Buildings 3.2.6. Thick Walls 3.2.7. Entrances 3.2.8. The Wholeness of Buildings/ Modular buildings 3.3. Structure and Mechanical 3.3.1. One Way to Approach Kahn 3.3.2. Structure as Generative 3.3.3. The Grid 3.3.4. Mechanical as the Equal of Structure 3.4. Construction 3.4.1. The Essences of Materials 3.4.2. Articulation Over Integration 3.4.3. A Preference for Masonry 3.4.4. Details 3.4.5. The Building is the Record 3.5. Light 3.6. Rome 4.0. FIVE BUILDINGS 70 4.x.1. Background and Context 4.x.2. Activities 4.x.3. Form Statement 4.x.4. Spatial Organization and Plan 4.x.5. Structure 4.x.6. Mechanical 4.x.7. Materials 4.x.8. Details 4.x.9. Light 4.x.10. Experiencing the Building 4.x.11. Philosophical Statement 4.x.12. Critique and Comments 4.x.13. Comparisons and Influences 4.1. Alfred Newton Richards Medical Research Building (Richards) 72 4.2. Salk Institute for Biological Studies (Salk) 92 4.3. Library, Phillips Exeter Academy (Exeter) 110 4.4. Kimbell Art Museum (Kimbell) 126 4.5. Yale Center for British Art (Yale) 146 5.0. CONCLUSION 164 6.0. APPENDICES 172 Kahn in Relationship to Theories of his Time 173 About Louis I. Kahn 182 List of Projects 1926- 74 184 Selected Bibliography 192 Credits 194 Acknowledgments 195 About John Lobell 196
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