George H. Marcus is adjunct assistant professor of the history of
art at the University of Pennsylvania. William Whitaker is
curator of the Architectural Archives of the University of
Pennsylvania, which houses the Louis I. Kahn Collection.
"The Houses of Louis Kahn . . . provides an architectural
bridge between the personal and the professional stories, focusing
on the nine houses Kahn completed, and designs for two dozen more.
The story told by the authors, George H. Marcus and William
Whitaker, is one of warm client relations, attention to the
smallest domestic detail and a philosophical search for the best
arrangement of rooms to call home."-New York Times
"Reveals an architect of mythic stature working on an intimate
scale."-Elle Decor
"An important addition to the scholarship about Louis Kahn by
addressing a portion of his oeuvre lesser known but certainly not
less significant."-Docomomo
Winner of the 2014 Athenaeum Literary Award for Art and
Architecture given by the Athenaeum of Philadelphia
"A spellbinding account of the artistic and intellectual maturation
of one of the most important and influential architects of the last
century. It is quite simply the most important book on Kahn to be
published in over two decades."-Michael J. Lewis, Williams College,
author of American Art and Architecture
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