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Louis Kahn's situated modernism / Sarah Williams Goldhagen.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, c2001.Description: 277 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 9780300077865
  • 0300077866 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.92
LOC classification:
  • G65 2001
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
General Lending Wexford Campus Library Wexford General Lending 720.92 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 43714
General Lending Wexford Campus Library Wexford General Lending 720.92 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 43715

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.

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