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Building : Louis I. Kahn at Roosevelt Island
- Title
- Building : Louis I. Kahn at Roosevelt Island / Photographs by Barney Kulok ; essay by Steven Holl ; afterword by Nathaniel Kahn.
- Author
- Kulok, Barney.
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. : Aperture, ©2012.
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- Description
- 49 pages : illustrations; 28 x 31 cm
- Summary
- In September 2011, Barney Kulok was granted permission to create photographs at the construction site of Louis I. Kahn's Four Freedoms Park in New York City, commissioned in 1970 as a memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt. The last design Kahn completed before his untimely death in 1974, Four Freedoms Park remained an unrealized work by one of the masters of twentieth-century architecture. Forty years after the original commission, it was finally completed in 2012. Unbuilt is at once a historical record and a multilayered visual investigation of form and the subtleties of texture--elements that were of fundamental importance to Kahn's approach . As architect Steven Holl writes, "Kulok's photographs free the subject matter from a literal interpretation of the site. They stand as 'Equivalents' to the words about material, light and shadow that Louis Kahn often spoke.
- Alternative Title
- Louis I. Kahn at Roosevelt Island
- Subject
- Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1882-1945 > Monuments > Pictorial works
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1882-1945
- 1900-1999
- Photography, Artistic
- Architects > United States
- Architecture > United States > History > 20th century
- Architects
- Architecture
- Monuments
- Roosevelt Island (New York, N.Y.) > Pictorial works
- New York (State) > New York > Roosevelt Island
- United States
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Pictorial works.
- Photography, Artistic.
- Note
- Illustrations on endpapers.
- Call Number
- JQG 20-203
- ISBN
- 9781597112253
- 1597112259
- OCLC
- 823504751
- Author
- Kulok, Barney.
- Title
- Building : Louis I. Kahn at Roosevelt Island / Photographs by Barney Kulok ; essay by Steven Holl ; afterword by Nathaniel Kahn.
- Imprint
- New York, N.Y. : Aperture, ©2012.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- Holl, Steven.Kahn, Nathaniel.
- Research Call Number
- JQG 20-203