Louis Kahn printing and Performing Resistance

and Performing Resistance

environmental engineering

these essays both illuminate the architects’ motivations and inspirations and celebrate their featured works

Only by thinking less

Louis Kahn printing and Performing ResistanceIt was not by chance that Louis Kahns move into his professions spotlight coincided with the crisis of modern architecture: representing, as his work increasingly did, those aspects of space which modernism had so ambitiously removed from its program. Kahns rethinking of modern architectures paradigm of space belongs to his most important contributions to the mtier. In tracing the genesis of the unbuilt project for the Dominican Motherhouse (196569),