Description
Book SynopsisA stunning celebration of the architect's residential masterpieces
Trade Review"
The Houses of Louis Kahn . . . provides an architectural bridge between the personal and the professional stories, focusing on the nine houses Kahn completed, and designs for two dozen more. The story told by the authors, George H. Marcus and William Whitaker, is one of warm client relations, attention to the smallest domestic detail and a philosophical search for the best arrangement of rooms to call home."
—New York Times"Reveals an architect of mythic stature working on an intimate scale."—
Elle Décor"An important addition to the scholarship about Louis Kahn by addressing a portion of his oeuvre lesser known but certainly not less significant."—
DocomomoWinner of the 2014 Athenaeum Literary Award for Art and Architecture given by the Athenaeum of Philadelphia
"A spellbinding account of the artistic and intellectual maturation of one of the most important and influential architects of the last century. It is quite simply the most important book on Kahn to be published in over two decades."—Michael J. Lewis, Williams College, author of
American Art and Architecture
