{"product_id":"you-say-to-brick-the-life-of-louis-kahn-paperback","title":"You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWendy Lesser\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE MARFIELD PRIZE AND PEN AMERICA LOS ANGELES'S 2018 LITERARY AWARD IN RESEARCH NONFICTION. FINALIST FOR THE 2018 PEN\/BOGRAD WELD PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2017, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of 2017, and one of \u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Nonfiction Books of 2017\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Wendy Lesser's \u003ci\u003eYou Say to Brick\u003c\/i\u003e is easily the most complete narrative of Kahn's life and career, magnificently researched and gracefully written.\" --Inga Saffron, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn in Estonia 1901 and brought to America in 1906, the architect Louis Kahn grew up in poverty in Philadelphia. By the time of his mysterious death in 1974, he was widely recognized as one of the greatest architects of his era. Yet this enormous reputation was based on only a handful of masterpieces, all built during the last fifteen years of his life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWendy Lesser's \u003ci\u003eYou Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn\u003c\/i\u003e is a major exploration of the architect's life and work. Kahn, perhaps more than any other twentieth-century American architect, was a \"public\" architect. Rather than focusing on corporate commissions, he devoted himself to designing research facilities, government centers, museums, libraries, and other structures that would serve the public good. But this warm, captivating person, beloved by students and admired by colleagues, was also a secretive man hiding under a series of masks. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKahn himself, however, is not the only complex subject that comes vividly to life in these pages. His signature achievements--like the Salk Institute in La Jolla, the National Assembly Building of Bangladesh, and the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad--can at first seem as enigmatic and beguiling as the man who designed them. In attempts to describe these structures, we are often forced to speak in contradictions and paradoxes: structures that seem at once unmistakably modern and ancient; enormous built spaces that offer a sense of intimate containment; designs in which light itself seems tangible, a raw material as tactile as travertine or Kahn's beloved concrete. This is where Lesser's talents as one of our most original and gifted cultural critics come into play. Interspersed throughout her account of Kahn's life and career are exhilarating \"in situ\" descriptions of what it feels like to move through his built structures. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on extensive original research, lengthy interviews with his children, his colleagues, and his students, and travel to the far-flung sites of his career-defining buildings, Lesser has written a landmark biography of this elusive genius, revealing the mind behind some of the twentieth century's most celebrated architecture.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWendy Lesser\u003c\/b\u003e is the founder and editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Threepenny Review\u003c\/i\u003e and the author of a novel and several previous books of nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eWhy I Read \u003c\/i\u003e(FSG, 2014), which garnered rave reviews from coast to coast. She has written for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications. To complete this biography, she was awarded one of the first National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar awards, the only one given to a Californian in 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 06, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753049194784,"sku":"9780374537630","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/df559f77332c74684e9c04efc598dfab.webp?v=1780011205","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/you-say-to-brick-the-life-of-louis-kahn-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}