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Summary
This remains one of the most important scholarly and illustrative examinations of Kahn's life work and his philosophy of architecture. Photographs and descriptive analysis are followed by a biographical chronology of the architect's life and a complete list of his buildings and projects from 1925 to 1974. The primary texts critically address different dimensions and periods of Kahn's production.
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Books about Louis Kahn continue to burgeon with his reputation. He was America's greatest architect after Frank Lloyd Wright, and his late works, constructed posthumously, continue to amaze, confound, and awe. Brownlee and DeLong's catalog of the life and achievement of Kahn offers the most thorough biography of the architect, updating Vincent Scully's now standard Louis I. Kahn (1962). It also includes a portfolio of drawings, color photographs, and written accounts of selected buildings and projects. A chronology, bibliography, and list of projects completes this museum catalog, which accompanies a worldwide exhibition of Kahn's architecture which opened in Philadelphia in 1991 and will travel to Europe and Japan through 1993. The accounts of Kahn's commissions contained in this volume deepen our knowledge of his career and practice summarized in numerous other works, including H. Ronner and S. Jhaveri's Louis Kahn: Complete Work, 1935-1974 (2nd ed., 1987; 1st ed., CH, Jun'77). Latour's Louis I. Kahn: Writings, Lectures, Interviews reprints 50 key writings of Kahn published in diverse sources between 1930 and 1974. It complements What Will Be Has Always Been: The Words of Louis I. Kahn, ed. by R.S. Wurman (1986). P. Kaufman Boston College
