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Oct 22, 2020
e-architect note news of a forthcoming book on Louis Kahn, out of print for decades:
www.louisikahn.com
?The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn? to be reissued in a new Facsimile Edition
The influential Modern architect called this 1962 publication his favorite book about his work.
By Steve Kroeter September 30, 2020

Detail of a 1956 study for center city in Philadelphia, ink on tracing paper, from The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn
We announce that Designers & Books will be reissuing The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn, edited by Richard Saul Wurman and Eugene Feldman. To learn more, we invite you to visit The Louis I. Kahn Facsimile Project website, which provides all the key details about the forthcoming exact reproduction of Notebooks and Drawings.
Originally issued in 1962, the book was one of the earliest public acknowledgments of the genius of architect Louis Kahn (1901?74) and the first book to present Kahn?s work in his own hand.
Designers and Books article
The print run of 1,800 copies was widely admired and sold out quickly.
In 1973, a second edition of the book was issued, this time by MIT Press. The print run was 3,000 copies.
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