Louis Kahn: The Importance of a Drawing

Lars Müller, hardcover, 512 pp, 919 illustrations, Michael Merrill. Unlike previous publications on Kahn, which have focused on his built work, this is the first in-depth study of drawings as primary sources of insight into Kahn’s architecture and creative imagination. By offering a spectrum of close readings of drawings by Kahn and his associates in a series of richly illustrated essays, this book is at once an intimate artistic portrait of this important architect and a provocative and timely contribution to the current discourse on representation in architecture.