Salk Institute

Louis I. Kahn

James Steele - Collection Architecture in detail

60 pages, parution le 07/05/2002

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Louis Kahn's Salk Institute for Biological Studies sits high above the Pacific Ocean at La Jolla, Southern California. The project presented Kahn with the opportunity to design for a closed community, in this case scientists, involved in concentrated research. In formulating his response to both the programme and the site, Kahn drew inspiration from such traditional prototypes as monasteries and other forms of intellectual retreat. He distinguished between the large, free-plan spaces of the laboratories and the rooms for private study, expressing these cell-like spaces as wooden panelled apertures set into otherwise bare concrete walls. As a complex, it remained incomplete at Kahn's death, but it survives as an enduring reminder of his humanism and architectural genius.

L'auteur - James Steele

Architecte, James Steele est également professeur d'architecture à l'université de Californie-du-Sud. Très tôt préoccupé des rapports entre l'environnement, l'écologie et l'architecture, il a consacré de très nombreux articles aux architectes non occidentaux comme Hassan Fathy, Balkrishna Doshi ou Rasem Badran. Il est l'auteur de : A Decade of Architectural Design ; trad. franç., L'Architecture aujourd'hui (en collaboration avec Andreas Papadakis), P. Terrail, 1991 ; Hellenistic Architecture in Asia Minor, 1992 ; Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Synthesis in form, 1994 ; Museum Builders, 1994 ; Architecture for Islamic Societies Today (éd.), 1994 ; Theatre Builders, 1996 ; An Architecture for People. The Complete Works of Hassan Fathy, 1997 ; Architecture Today, 1997 ; Rudolf Michael Schindler, 1999 ; Architecture and Computers. Action and Reaction in the Digital Design Revolution, 2002.

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Phaidon
Auteur(s)	James Steele
Collection	Architecture in detail
Parution	07/05/2002
Nb. de pages	60
Format	25 x 25
Couverture	Broché
Poids	375g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780714842141
ISBN13	978-0-7148-4214-1