You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn

by Wendy Lesser

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Born to a Jewish family in Estonia in 1901 and brought to America in 1906, the architect Louis Kahn grew up in poverty in Philadelphia; by the time of his death in 1974, he was widely recognised 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. Perfectly complementing Nathaniel Kahn's award-winning documentary, My Architect, Wendy Lesser's You Say to Brick is a major exploration of the architect's life and work. Kahn, perhaps more than any other twentieth-...Read more
  • ISBN10 1250159288
  • ISBN13 9781250159281
  • Publish Date 13 March 2018 (first published 14 March 2017)
  • Publish Status Cancelled
  • Imprint Picador USA
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 432
  • Language English