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      Michael Merrill

      Louia Kahn; Drawing to Find Out
      Designing the Dominican Motherhouse

      Design: Integral Lars Müller
      2010 | English | 30 x 24 cm | 240 pages | 233 illustrations | hardcover
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Like few others, Louis Kahn cultivated the craft of drawing as a means to architecture. His personal design drawings – seen either as a method of discovery or for themselves – are unique in the twentieth century. Over two hundred – mostly unpublished – drawings by Kahn and his associates are woven together with a lively and informed commentary into an intimate biography of an architectural idea.
Unfolding around the iconic project for the Dominican Motherhouse (1965 – 69) the drawings form a narrative which not only reveals the richness and hidden dimensions of this unbuilt masterpiece, but provides compelling insights into Louis Kahn’s mature culture of designing.
Kahn – long considered an “architects’ architect” – emerges as a vivid and instructive guide, provoking reflection on questions which continue to remain relevant: on how works are conceived, on how they might be perceived, on how they become part of human experience. Fascinating not only in their beauty, the drawings open a new and stimulating perspective on one of the past century’s great architects.

他の少数派の人々と同じように、 Louis Kahnは建築という目的のもとドローイングの技術を高めていった。彼が直接デザインしたドローイング(いずれも発見への方法かそれ自身のためのものと思われる)は20世紀において類をみない。Kahnとその仲間が手がけた200を超えるドローイングの大半は未発表だが、活発で情報に富む論評を建築学的見解のバイオグラフィへと織り合わせる。
Dominican Motherhouse (1965 – 69)をはじめとするアイコニックなプロジェクトの展開は、豊かさや実際には建設されなかった傑作の存在を明らかにするだけでなく、 Kahnの優れたデザイン文化の中へと誘う。
長い間、『建築の建築』として捉えられていたKahnは、鮮明で教育的な先導者として台頭し、「仕事はいかにして考案されるのか」「他者はそれをどのように受け止めるだろうか」「それらはいかにして人間の経験の一部となるのか」といった問題を指摘する。ドローイングの美しさにだけに魅了されるのではなく、20世紀の最も素晴らしい建築家の1人と称されるKahnの全く新しく刺激的な見方を繰り広げる。
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