Louis I. Kahn - Drawing to Find Out

Louis Kahn: Drawing to Find Out : Designing the Dominican Motherhouse and the Patient Search for Architecture by Michael Merrill (Baden: Lars Müller, 2010)

“Drawings are expression of one’s striving to reach the spirit of architecture.” -Louis Kahn

Lars Müller Publishers’ new book Louis Kahn, Drawing to Find Out: the Dominican Motherhouse and the Patient Search for Architecture is an amazing book of 238 pages, illustrated by over 200 mostly unpublished drawings for a single unbuilt project: The Dominican Motherhouse, a project he worked on from 1965 to 1969.The difficult struggle to fuse the subjective with the objective – to integrate form and use with a poetry of material/construction is almost overlooked in the flash time of blog-driven architecture today. zap: an image, click: another completely different image, no time to make up your mind or engage architecture, as it’s just another item on the ever-changing scroll. Lars Müller’s new book on Louis Kahn is a meditative antidote to this, each drawing is a further meditation on the same building, Dominican Motherhouse. Kahn’s process is laid out on the pages for view. Lars Müller’s brilliance as a publisher is once again topical and inspiring.Louis Kahn: Drawing to Find Out : Designing the Dominican Motherhouse and the Patient Search for Architecture by Michael Merrill (Baden: Lars Müller, 2010)

Louis Kahn: Drawing to Find Out : Designing the Dominican Motherhouse and the Patient Search for Architecture by Michael Merrill (Baden: Lars Müller, 2010)