Louis Kahn
dal 22/2/2013 al 10/8/2013
Segnalato da
22/2/2013
Louis Kahn
Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein
The Power of Architecture. This exhibition encompasses an unprecedented and wide variety of material of the artist and about the artist as architectural models, original drawings, travel sketches, photographs and films. All the Kahn's most important projects are extensively documented - from his early urban planning concepts and single-family houses to monumental late works such as the Roosevelt Memorial.
The American architect Louis Kahn (1901-1974) is regarded as one of the great master builders of the twentieth century. Kahn created buildings of archaic beauty and powerful universal symbolism, with complex spatial compositions, an elemental formal vocabulary and a choreographic mastery of light. Numbering among his most important works are the Salk Institute, the Kimbell Art Museum and the National Assembly Building in Dhaka, Bangladesh. As the first retrospective on Louis Kahn in over two decades, this exhibition encompasses an unprecedented and diverse range of architectural models, original drawings, travel sketches, photographs and films. All of Kahn’s important projects are extensively documented — from his early urban planning concepts and single-family houses to monumental late works such as the Roosevelt Memorial, which was posthumously completed in October 2012. Highlights of the exhibition include a four-metre-high model of the spectacular City Tower designed for Philadelphia, as well as previously unseen film footage shot by Nathaniel Kahn, director of the film ‘My Architect’. The view of Kahn’s architectural oeuvre is augmented by a selection of travel sketches, which shed new light on his activity as an artist. Interviews with such architects as Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, Peter Zumthor and Sou Fujimoto underscore the current significance of Kahn’s work, which is being rediscovered and made accessible to a wide public audience with this exhibition. More...
The exhibition is a cooperation of the Vitra Design Museum, the Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and the NAI part of The New Institute, Rotterdam. Its Global Sponsor is Swarovski.
Press images and texts:
Joanna Moore, 30 Clerkenwell Road, GB – London EC1M 5PG
Phone: +44 207 608 62 25, joanna.moore@vitra.com
Vitra Design Museum
Charles-Eames-Straße 2, D-79576 Weil am Rhein
Hours: Daily 10 am – 6 pm
Admission: 8.00 €, reduced 6.50 €, children under 12 free