You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (586 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374537631 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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But this warm, captivating person, beloved by students and admired by colleagues, was also a secretive man hiding under a series of masks. "Wendy Lesser's You Say to Brick is easily the most complete narrative of Kahn's life and career, magnificently researched and gracefully written." Inga Saffron, New York Times Book ReviewBorn in Estonia 1901 and brought to America in 1906, the architect Louis Kahn grew up in poverty in Philadelphia. Interspersed throughout her account of Kahn’s life and career are exhilarating “in situ” descriptions of what it feels like to move through his built structures. Drawing on extensive original research, lengthy interviews with his children, his colleagues, and his students, and travel to the far-flung sites of his career-defining buildings, Lesser has written a landmark biography of this elusive genius, revealing the mind behind some of the twentieth century’s most celebrated architecture.. This is where L
A New York Times Editor's Choice"Wendy Lesser's You Say to Brick is easily the most complete narrative of Kahn's life and career, magnificently researched and gracefully written Her account is packed with insights, of both the architectural and psychological kind Kahn died far from the light. She allows the women in his life to emerge as far more than mere satellites to a great male ego The success of this biography lies in the author’s fundamental acceptance of the messiness of human life." Philip Kennicott, Washington Post"Lesser has an innate feel for Kahn’s architecture Her biography is not the first we have of Kahn, but it is notable for its warm, engaged, literate tone and its psychological acuity." Dwight Garner, New York Times"Lesser is too smart a writer to waste her time tilting against the windmill of celebr
Five Stars The best book about the motivations of Kahn.. skip drinkwater said Five Stars. best bio tet. Five Stars Thank you!
Wendy Lesser is the founder and editor of The Threepenny Review and the author of a novel and several previous books of nonfiction, including Why I Read (FSG, 2014), which garnered rave reviews from coast to coast. To complete this biography, she was awarded one of the first National Endowment for the Humanities Public S