Louis I. Kahn - Silence and Light

Produktbeschreibung

Louis I. Kahn (1901-74) was one of the foremost architects in America during the twentieth century. His notable buildings include the Yale Study Center; the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California; and the Exeter Library in Exeter, New Hampshire. On February 12, 1969, Kahn gave a lecture at the School of Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich. Entitled Silence and Light, the lecture explains Kahn's spiritual understanding of architecture, which goes far deeper than simply constructing buildings. It also gives a remarkably prescient account of a belief in sustainable architecture that prefigures the twenty-first century's focus on green technology. The lecture is represented in transcripts in five different languages (German, Italian, English, French, and Spanish), as well as an audio recording of Kahn giving the lecture in English included on CD. To complement the original text, the editor has included a preface written by Kahn's close friend and fellow architect Balkrishna V. Doshi, as well as many of Kahn's own images and drawings, some of which have never been published before. 

Kritik

®Talking to us nearly 4o years after he [Louis I. Kahn] died, this 'lost' tape has a haunting yet comforting quality.¯ Jan-Carlos Kucharek, Riba Journal

®Der kleine Leseband 'Silence and Light' besticht durch seine liebevolle und auf den Inhalt konzentrierte Aufmachung.¯ Uwe Bresan, AIT Architektur Innenarchitektur Technischer Ausbau

®[...] a CD that gives us the chance to experience the spell of the voice of the one who was perhaps the last guru of the essential truths of architecture.¯ ArquitecturaViva 163

®Ohne Zweifel: Eines der schönsten Bücher, die ich in den letzten Jahren in den Händen gehalten habe.¯ Thomas Geuder, german-architects  

Autoreninfo

Alessandro L. B. Vassella studied architecture at ETH Zürich and is currently head of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Oekologischer Stadtumbau Berlin (Committee for the Ecological Urban Restructuring of Berlin).