by Wendy Lesser
Bertha, Lou, Leopold, Esther, and Sue Ann Kahn in Los Angeles, 1948
(Anonymous photograph from the collection of Lauren Kahn)
Anne Tyng in 1944, age twenty-four
(Photograph by Bachrach, from the collection of Alexandra Tyng)
Alex and Anne Tyng, 1965
(Anonymous photograph from the collection of Alexandra Tyng)
Louis Kahn in the Yale University Art Gallery
(Photograph by Lionel Freedman, from the Louis I. Kahn Collection, University of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission)
Marie Kuo in the 1950s
(Anonymous photograph from the collection of Morton Paterson)
Marie Kuo Paterson with Jamie Paterson in the late 1960s
(Photograph by Morton Paterson, from his own collection)
Trenton Bath House exterior with mural
(Photograph by John Ebstel © Keith De Lellis Gallery)
Trenton Bath House interior courtyard
(Photograph by John Ebstel © Keith De Lellis Gallery)
Salk Institute study towers
(Anonymous photograph from the author’s collection)
Phillips Exeter Library exterior
(Anonymous photograph, courtesy of the Phillips Exeter Academy Archives)
Louis Kahn teaching at Penn with (left to right) Norman Rice, Robert Le Ricolais, and August Komendant
(Photograph by John Nicolais, from the Richard Saul Wurman Collection, The Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania)
Kahn drawing ambidextrously
(Photographs by Martin Rich, from The Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania)
Kimbell Art Museum exterior
(Anonymous photograph from the author’s collection)
Central Market in Riga
(Anonymous photograph from the author’s collection)
Lou and Nathaniel Kahn, late 1960s
(Photograph by Harriet Pattison, from the Harriet Pattison Collection, The Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania)
Lou, Alex, and Nathaniel at Alex’s high school graduation, 1971
(Anonymous photograph from the collection of Alexandra Tyng)
Harriet Pattison at George Patton’s landscape architecture firm
(Anonymous photograph from the George E. Patton Collection, The Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania)
Louis Kahn in the auditorium of the Kimbell Art Museum
(Photograph by Bob Wharton, from the Louis I. Kahn Collection, University of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Collection)
Louis Kahn at the Indian Institute of Management with Samuel Paul, the Institute’s director
(Anonymous photograph from the Louis I. Kahn Collection, University of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Collection)
The roof of the Dhaka Assembly Building
(Photograph by Raymond Meier, courtesy of the photographer)
The mosque in the Dhaka Assembly Building
(Photograph by Raymond Meier, courtesy of the photographer)
ALSO BY WENDY LESSER
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Nothing Remains the Same: Rereading and Remembering
The Amateur: An Independent Life of Letters
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A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Wendy Lesser is the founder and editor of The Threepenny Review. She is the author of ten previous books, including nine nonfiction books and a novel. Her most recent books are a prizewinning biography, Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets, and a personally inflected book of literary criticism, Why I Read. She has written for The New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, and other publications. She divides her time between Berkeley, California, and New York City. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraph
Prologue
Ending
In Situ: Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Preparing
In Situ: Kimbell Art Museum
Becoming
In Situ: Phillips Exeter Library
Achieving
In Situ: National Assembly of Bangladesh
Arriving
In Situ: Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Beginning
Epilogue
Notes
Further Reading
Acknowledgments
Index
Illustrations
Also by Wendy Lesser
A Note About the Author
Copyright
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Copyright © 2017 by Wendy Lesser
All rights reserved
First edition, 2017
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Lesser, Wendy, author.
Title: You say to brick: the life of Louis Kahn / Wendy Lesser.
Description: First edition.|New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016025613|ISBN 9780374279974 (hardback)|ISBN 9780374713317 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Kahn, Louis I., 1901–1974.|Architects—United States—Biography.|BISAC: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers.|ARCHITECTURE / Individual Architects & Firms / General.|ARCHITECTURE / History / Contemporary (1945–).
Classification: LCC NA737.K32 L48 2017|DDC 720.92 [B]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016025613
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