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- catalog abstract ""Louis Kahn is perhaps the most important architect to emerge in the decades following World War II. In this book Sarah Williams Goldhagen dismantles the myths that have cast Kahn variously as a mystical neo-Platonist, a structural rationalist, a visionary champion of Beaux-Arts principles, or a rebel against modernism. She demonstrates instead that Kahn's architecture is grounded in his deeply held modernist political, social, and artistic ideals, which guided him as he sought to rework modernism into a socially transformative architecture appropriate for the postwar world." "Goldhagen presents much new archival evidence about Kahn's buildings, his ideas, and his indebtedness to contemporary art and to the many socio-critical and architectural discourses of the postwar years. She offers fresh interpretations of many of his important buildings, including the Yale University Art Gallery and the National Assembly complex in Bangladesh, as well as of such previously understudied or misunderstood works as the Trenton Bathhouse and his AFL Medical Services building in Philadelphia. Goldhagen then theorizes Kahn's architectural principles to show that he struggled with modernism rather than against it, reconceptualizing it into a singular and powerful new vocabulary that retains architectural and social relevance today."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12177011.
- catalog contributor b12177012.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""Goldhagen presents much new archival evidence about Kahn's buildings, his ideas, and his indebtedness to contemporary art and to the many socio-critical and architectural discourses of the postwar years. She offers fresh interpretations of many of his important buildings, including the Yale University Art Gallery and the National Assembly complex in Bangladesh, as well as of such previously understudied or misunderstood works as the Trenton Bathhouse and his AFL Medical Services building in Philadelphia. Goldhagen then theorizes Kahn's architectural principles to show that he struggled with modernism rather than against it, reconceptualizing it into a singular and powerful new vocabulary that retains architectural and social relevance today."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""Louis Kahn is perhaps the most important architect to emerge in the decades following World War II. In this book Sarah Williams Goldhagen dismantles the myths that have cast Kahn variously as a mystical neo-Platonist, a structural rationalist, a visionary champion of Beaux-Arts principles, or a rebel against modernism. She demonstrates instead that Kahn's architecture is grounded in his deeply held modernist political, social, and artistic ideals, which guided him as he sought to rework modernism into a socially transformative architecture appropriate for the postwar world."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "277 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0300077866 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Haven, CT : Yale University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "720/.92 21".
- catalog subject "Architecture United States 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Architecture United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974 Political and social views.".
- catalog subject "NA737.K32 G65 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Louis Kahn's situated modernism / Sarah Williams Goldhagen.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".