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Louis Kahn: Architecture as Philosophy by John Lobell
Louis Kahn: Architecture as Philosophy
By John Lobell
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
Published: June 2020
Noted Louis I.Kahn expert John Lobell explores how Kahn’s focus on structure, respect for materials, clarity of program, and reverence for details come together to manifest an overall philosophy.
Our Days Are Like Full Years: A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn by Harriet Pattison
Our Days Are Like Full Years: A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn
By Harriet Pattison
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: October 2020
An intimate glimpse into the professional and romantic relationship between Harriet Pattison and the renowned architect Louis Kahn. Harriet Pattison, FASLA, is a distinguished landscape architect. She was Louis Kahn’s romantic partner from 1959 to 1974, and his collaborator on the landscapes of the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, and the F.D.R. Memorial/Four Freedoms Park, New York. She is the mother of their son, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn.
Louis I. Kahn: The Nordic Latitudes
Louis I. Kahn: The Nordic Latitudes
By Per Olaf Fjeld and Emily Randall Fjeld
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: October 4, 2019
A new and personal reading of the architecture, teachings, and legacy of Louis I. Kahn from Per Olaf Fjeld’s perspective as a former student. The book explores Kahn’s life and work, offering a unique take on one of the twentieth century’s most important architects. Kahn’s Nordic and European ties are emphasized in this study that also covers his early childhood in Estonia, his travels, and his relationships with other architects, including the Norwegian architect Arne Korsmo.
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Reading Graphic Design History: Image, Text, and Context by David Raizman
Reading Graphic Design History: Image, Text, and Context
By David Raizman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Published: December 2020
An innovative approach to graphic design that uses a series of key artifacts from the history of print culture in light of their specific historical contexts. It encourages the reader to look carefully and critically at print advertising, illustration, posters, magazine art direction, and typography, often addressing issues of class, race, and gender.
David King: Designer, Activist, Visual Historian by Rick Poynor
David King: Designer, Activist, Visual Historian
By Rick Poynor
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: September 2020
A comprehensive overview of the work and legacy of David King (1943–2016), whose fascinating career bridged journalism, graphic design, photography, and collecting. King launched his career at Britain’s Sunday Times Magazine in the 1960s, starting as a designer and later branching out into image-led journalism, blending political activism with his design work.
Teaching Graphic Design History by Steven Heller
Teaching Graphic Design History
By Steven Heller
Publisher: Allworth Press
Published: June 2019
An examination of the concerted efforts, happy accidents, and key influences of the practice throughout the years, Teaching Graphic Design History is an illuminating resource for students, practitioners, and future teachers of the subject.
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Akiko Fukai
Akiko Fukai is director and chief curator of the Kyoto Costume Institute. She received a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in History of Fashion from the National University of Ochanomizu, and studied art history at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), Institut d’Art et Archéologie. She has organized a number of major fashion exhibitions in Japan, Paris, London, and New York, including “Revolution in Fashion 1715–1815” (National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 1988), “Japonisme et Mode” (Musée de la Mode et du Costume, Paris, 1996), “Japonism in Fashion” (Brooklyn Museum and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1998), “Fashion in Colors” (Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, 2005–2006), “Luxury in Fashion Reconsidered” (Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, and National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 2009–2010), and, most recently, “Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion.” (2010–2011, Barbican Art Gallery, London).
She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a special prize from the Academy of Japonism in Japan (2000), an honorary doctoral degree from the National University of Ochanomizu (2004), and the Commissioner for Cultural Affairs Award, Japan (2008).
Akiko Fukai has been an associate professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Kyoto), professor at Shizuoka University of Art and Culture, and a lecturer at the University of Tokyo and Rikkyo University.
Among the many books and exhibition catalogues she has written and edited are Japonism in Fashion (1994); Fashion: The Collection of the Kyoto Costume Institute, A History from the 18th to the 20th Century (2002)—a luxuriously illustrated survey of more than 700 items of clothing in the collection of the Kyoto Costume Institute; The Century of Fashion (2005); Reading Fashion from Pictures (2009); and Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion (2010)—a survey of avant-garde Japanese fashion from 1980 to the present.