Louis I. Kahn: Beyond Time and Style
A Life in Architecture
4 May 2007
Territory Rights — Worldwide.
Description
The first in-depth biographical study of the brilliant but elusive architect who fundamentally redefined twentieth-century architecture.
Drawing on more than one hundred interviews with colleagues, coworkers, clients, and family members and illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs, this book documents the uniquely American rise of a poor immigrant to the pinnacle of the international architectural world.
It illuminates the richly diverse personal relationships Kahn had with such clients as Jonas Salk and Paul Mellon, and the romantic entanglements that mystified even those closest to him. While celebrating the genius of Kahnís art, the book provides an invaluable portrait of the man who created it.Reviews
"[P]hotos of Kahn’s...work, most previously unpublished, add an amazing visual aspect to this most visual and visionary of architects" — ENR
"[An] excellent new biography." — Christopher Hawthorne, Metropolis Magazine
"Wiseman…has done us all a service…a balanced and penetrating study of Kahn both as an architect and as a man." — James Gardner, New York Sun
"[A]n accessible and handsome biography…[A] welcome tribute to a twentieth-century master" — Rob Hardy, The Commercial Dispatch
"[A]n authoritative and beautifully illustrated book." — Yale Alumni Magazine
"[E]xcellent overview of….how Scandinavian furniture defined a past era, and how it will likely define the future...[A] book other biographers of architects should emulate." — Sandy McLendon, Modernism Magazine
Also By: Carter Wiseman 
Twentieth-Century American Architecture: The Buildings and Their Makers
Paperback, 2000
An authoritative and richly illustrated narrative history of the buildings that shaped the American century and the architects who gave them form.