Louis Kahn : the power of architecture /
Power of architecture
[editors, Mateo Kries, Jochen Eisenbrand, Stanislaus von Moos ; translations: Brian Currid, Barbara Hauss, Anna Stüler].
- Weil am Rhein : Vitra Design Museum, c2012.
- 354 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), plans ; 33 cm.
Exhibition catalog. On the occasion of an exhibition held at Nederlands Architektuurinstituut, Rotterdam, September 8, 2012 - January 6, 2013; Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, March 9 - August 25, 2013; National Museum, Oslo, October 18, 2013 - January 26, 2014. Caption title.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Essays. Chronology / William Whitaker -- Monument? Forum? Fair? Louis Kahn, Edmund Bacon, and Philadelphia / Stanislaus von Moos -- Between grid and pathway : the houses of Louis Kahn / Jochen Eisenbrand -- Louis Kahn's art and his architectural thought / Michael Lewis -- Portfolio, sketches and drawings -- Kahn's edge : the provocative historicism of the Trenton Jewish Community Center / Neil Levine -- Louis Kahn and the French connection / Kenneth Frampton -- Toward cognitive architecture / Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen -- Louis I. Kahn's building for three faiths : "Religion ... not a religion." / Susan G. Solomon -- Enclosure : Kahn / Thomas Florschuetz -- Mettre la nature en oeuvre / Florian Sauter -- "Unavoidable nuisances:" engineering and engineers in the work of Louis Kahn / Thomas Leslie -- Louis Kahn and the life of materials / Réjean Legault -- Modern architecture and the excavation of the past / William J.R. Curtis.