HCP Design, Planning & Management   India   Though designed independently, the new campus that enlarges the original premises by Louis Kahn keeps its elements in continuity with the master’s formal language.

The New York Times   Matt Shaw   After an outcry from preservationists and architects, the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad said that it would reconvene to consider the dorms’ future. Plans to raze 14 of 18 dormitories designed by the architect Louis Kahn for the Indian I

The Indian Express   Ritu Sharma   The board of the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad has decided to demolish the dormitories built by legendary American architect Louis Kahn on its campus triggering a controversy. The restoration of the dorms was part of an ongoing project by

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Aphoristic in his teachings, Louis Kahn was torrential in his letters. Those he wrote to Anne Tyng, his collaborator and lover, mother of his daughter Alexandra, were published in 1997 under a title (The Rome Letters 1953-1954) that alludes to the ti

Carmen Espegel   It could be said that Anne Tyng was born into public life at the age of 77, in 1997, when, deciding that her existence should not remain hidden nor her freedom jeopardized, she published Louis Kahn to Anne Tyng: The Rome Letters, 1953-1954 – missives

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The publication of a new biography of a master is always an event; in this case, it is also a disappointment. Penned by an expert writer, endorsed by a leading publisher, and received with generous reviews in NYT, TLS or The Economist (besides extens

La colección de documentales cuya primera entrega acompañó el número 125 de AV dedicado a Oscar Niemeyer ha llegado ya a su sexto volumen. La serie, impulsada por la Fundación Arquia Caja de Arquitectos, ofrece nuevos puntos de vista sobre la histori

Francisco de Gracia   Allá por marzo de 1974, mientras un grupo de universitarios estábamos a punto de ser arquitectos en una España sobrecogida aún por la ejecución de Salvador Puig Antich en la cárcel modelo de Barcelona, supimos del fallecimiento de Louis Kahn en circu

Antón Capitel   Libro atractivo, éste de Kahn, pues reúne la condición de monografía con la de ensayo sobre sus obras. En efecto, la obra de Kahn está casi toda ella reproducida en este volumen con suficientes documentos y, además, está muy convenientemente clasific

Luis Fernández-Galiano   ¿HAY QUE CELEBRAR EL CENTENARIO DE KAHN? No es imprescindible. Entre 1991 y 1994, una colosal exposición viajó por siete museos de tres continentes, y su catálogo (preparado por los profesores de la Universidad de Pensilvania David B. Brownlee y Davi

Martin Filler   In Henry R. Luce’s hortatory 1941 editorial “The American Century,” which appeared in his Life magazine a few months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor drew the United States into World War II, the publisher urged his countrymen to abandon th

The great misfortune of Louis Kahn’s long-thwarted but ultimately triumphant career was in his being born in 1901, a poor year for modern architecture. Too young during the first flood of modernism after World War I, Kahn was out of phase with cycles

Adela García-Herrera   No es aconsejable leer este libro de un tirón ni de cabo a rabo. La erudición que en él se despliega puede resultar abrumadora si uno no la administra en dosis razonables. Dividido en dos mitades, la primera tiene seis capítulos, dedicados al lenguaj

Anne Griswold Tyng    New York  1997  
Rizzoli   - 216 Pages 

Harriet Pattison   A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn

Louis Kahn   Zurich  2013  
Park Books   - 167 Pages 

Mateo Kries Jochen Eisenbrand   The Power of Architecture

Maria Bonaiti   1901-1974

Robert McCarter   London  2005  
Phaidon   - 560 Pages 

Adrian Forty   A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture