The house as Kahn's design laboratory
Kahn's relatively few houses reveal ideas he later refined in his monumental public works. The domestic scale served as a testing ground for his architecture.
The Houses of Louis Kahn
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Served and servant spaces
Kahn distinguished primary rooms from the supporting utility spaces that serve them. This ordering principle gives clarity and hierarchy to his plans.
Light as the maker of architecture
Kahn treated natural light as the essential material that shapes and defines each room. Structure exists to admit and modulate light.
Kahn's built residences documented in depth
The book studies Kahn's houses through plans, photographs, and archival history. It reconstructs how each commission developed and was realized.