The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I Kahn Architect, Princeton Architectural Press Publication, Book Image
The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I Kahn
Jan 29, 2021
Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I Kahn
Designers & Books Launches a Kickstarter on February 17 2021 to Reissue The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn

The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn 2021 Kickstarter project image
Designers & Books Launches a Kickstarter on February 17 to Reissue The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn Originally published in 1962 and out of print for almost fifty years, the first book on influential modern architect Louis Kahn to feature work in his own hand will be reissued in a facsimile edition, accompanied by a new Reader?s Guide.
1956 study for center city Philadelphia, ink on tracing paper
Designers & Books is launching a Kickstarter on February 17 to issue The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn, long out of print, in a new facsimile edition.

Portrait of Louis I. Kahn, from a photograph by George Pohl
Created by Richard Saul Wurman, along with printer Eugene Feldman, and first published in 1962 (second edition, 1973), the book is one of the earliest public acknowledgments of the genius of the influential and iconoclastic American modern architect Louis I. Kahn (1901?1974) and the one Kahn called his favorite book about his work. The generously sized folio features sketches from Kahn?s travels and drawings of selected projects, paired with texts...