Louis Kahn Houses turns attention to a largely overlooked dimension of one of the twentieth century's most celebrated architects — his domestic work — presenting nine realised private house designs through serene interior and exterior photography.
About This Book
Kahn's reputation rests on monumental civic and institutional buildings across North America, India, and Bangladesh — structures defined by graceful detailing, simple materials, and abstract geometrical form. His residential architecture, by contrast, has received far less scrutiny. Of the twenty private house plans Kahn designed (excluding renovations), nine were built. This volume documents all nine, with full-page photographic spreads that allow the spatial and material qualities of each house to register without editorial interference. Three essays and a fold-out plan sheet extend the architectural reading, giving students and practitioners a rare, focused encounter with Kahn's thinking at the domestic scale.
Key Features
- 144 pages of full-page interior and exterior photography paired with architectural plans
- Nine realised private house designs profiled in full
- Three essays examining Kahn's domestic architecture
- Fold-out sheet with plans of Kahn's buildings
- Published by Toto, ISBN 9784887062283
What You'll Discover
- How Kahn translated his signature vocabulary — monumentality, abstract form, simple materials — into the constraints of private residential commissions
- The full scope of Kahn's domestic output: twenty house designs in total, nine of which reached construction, documented here for the first time in a dedicated volume
- Spatial and material relationships rendered through calm, full-page photography that rewards close looking rather than quick reference
- Architectural plans in fold-out format, enabling direct comparison of Kahn's compositional strategies across different residential projects
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 144
- Dimensions: 200 x 260mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9784887062283
- Publisher: Toto
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and architecture students with a serious interest in Louis Kahn, researchers working on mid-century American modernism, and collectors seeking monographic studies of canonical figures at an intimate scale.