Louis Kahn's situated modernism /
Goldhagen, Sarah Williams.
Louis Kahn's situated modernism / Sarah Williams Goldhagen. - New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, c2001. - 277 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [216]-266) and index.
Introduction : Situating Louis Kahn -- Kahn and American modernism : the search for community and the turn toward monumentality -- Quest for authenticity : the art gallery at Yale -- Techno-organic symbols of community : a new city hall for Philadelphia and the AFL Medical Services -- Gathering people into a community : the Adath Jeshurun Synagogue for Communication -- Struggling for a new idiom : the Trenton Jewish Community Center and Bathhouse, and the Philadelphia Civic Center plan -- Rethinking modernism : authenticity and community in the First Unitarian Church of Rochester -- Situating the democratic way of life : the National Assembly Complex in Dhaka, Bangladesh -- Louis Kahn's situated modernism.
9780300077865 0300077866 (alk. paper)
00043677
Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974 --Criticism and interpretation.
Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974 --Political and social views.
Architecture--History--United States--20th century
Architecture--United States--20th century
History of art
Individual architects & architectural firms
/ G65 2001
720.92
Louis Kahn's situated modernism / Sarah Williams Goldhagen. - New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, c2001. - 277 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [216]-266) and index.
Introduction : Situating Louis Kahn -- Kahn and American modernism : the search for community and the turn toward monumentality -- Quest for authenticity : the art gallery at Yale -- Techno-organic symbols of community : a new city hall for Philadelphia and the AFL Medical Services -- Gathering people into a community : the Adath Jeshurun Synagogue for Communication -- Struggling for a new idiom : the Trenton Jewish Community Center and Bathhouse, and the Philadelphia Civic Center plan -- Rethinking modernism : authenticity and community in the First Unitarian Church of Rochester -- Situating the democratic way of life : the National Assembly Complex in Dhaka, Bangladesh -- Louis Kahn's situated modernism.
9780300077865 0300077866 (alk. paper)
00043677
Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974 --Criticism and interpretation.
Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974 --Political and social views.
Architecture--History--United States--20th century
Architecture--United States--20th century
History of art
Individual architects & architectural firms
/ G65 2001
720.92