First ed. published as: Louis I. Kahn: talks with students. 1969.

Kahn spoke of these qualities with tremendous power and grace. Between Silence and Light -- one of the few books on Kahn written for a general audience -- introduces us to Louis Kahn the architect and the visionary. Copyright © Libri GmbH.

From Kahn's early work to larger projects such as the National Capital of Bangladesh in Khaka and the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, the documented works all illustrate the human aspect in Kahn's work.

In this book, Thomas Leslie shows that Kahn was also an extraordinarily gifted technologist and that his careful presentation of engineering principles set the stage for the high-tech movement in Europe and America.

This lavishly illustrated volume provides a catalogue raisonné of all 480 known paintings and sketches by Kahn, and also includes an in-depth critical analysis of the works and their relationship to his architecture, a biographical sketch, ...

A thoughtful selection of the celebrated architect's speeches and writings.

Many of the essays are classics in architectural literature, among them "Order is," "Form and being," "Poetics," and "Silence and light," along with excerpts from CIAM in Otterlo, the World Design Conference, and The Sixties: A P/A ...