Louis Kahn

Drawing to Find Out

By: MICHAEL MERRILL

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Hardcover | 1 September 2010

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Like few others, Louis Kahn cultivated the craft of drawing as a means to architecture. His personal design drawings ? seen either as a method of discovery or for themselves ? are unique in the twentieth century. Over two hundred ? mostly unpublished ? drawings by Kahn and his associates are woven together with a lively and informed commentary into an intimate biography of an architectural idea. Unfolding around the iconic project for the Dominican Motherhouse (1965 ? 69) the drawings form a narrative which not only reveals the richness and hidden dimensions of this unbuilt masterpiece, but provides compelling insights into Louis Kahn?s mature culture of designing. Kahn ? long considered an ?architects? architect? ? emerges as a vivid and instructive guide, provoking reflection on questions which continue to remain relevant: on how works are conceived, on how they might be perceived, on how they become part of human experience. Fascinating not only in their beauty, the drawings open a new and stimulating perspective on one of the past century?s great architects. AUTHOR: Michael Merrill, Dr.-Ing., is a practicing architect in the USA and Germany and assistant professor for Architectural Design at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. ILLUSTRATIONS 160

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