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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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Alice Rawsthorn
Alice Rawsthorn is an internationally renowned design commentator whose latest book, the critically acclaimed Hello World: Where Design Meets Life, explores design’s impact on our lives: past, present, and future.
A prominent broadcaster and public speaker, Rawsthorn speaks on design at important international events, including the World Economic Forum’s annual meetings in Davos, Switzerland. Based in London, she is chair of trustees at the Chisenhale Gallery, as well as a trustee of the Whitechapel Gallery and of the contemporary dance group, the Michael Clark Company.
Born in Manchester, Rawsthorn graduated in art and architectural history from Cambridge University. She became an award-winning journalist for the Financial Times, working as a foreign correspondent in Paris and pioneering that newspaper’s coverage of the creative industries. In 2006, Rawsthorn joined the international edition of the New York Times as a columnist, writing a weekly design column syndicated to other media worldwide.
An honorary senior fellow of the Royal College of Art in London, Rawsthorn has served on numerous cultural juries, including the Turner Prize for contemporary art, the Stirling Prize for architecture, the British Council’s selection panel for the Venice Architecture Biennale, the PEN History Book Prize, the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the Buckminster Fuller Challenge, and the BAFTA film and television awards.
A trustee of Arts Council England from 2007 to 2013, she is a former chair of the British Council’s Design Advisory Group and a former member of the Design Council and the UK government’s advisory panel on the BBC Charter Review. Before joining the Arts Council’s board, Rawsthorn was its lead advisor on the visual arts and chaired the Turning Point review of the contemporary visual arts, which led to a record increase in public funding.
Rawsthorn’s latest book, Hello World: Where Design Meets Life, was published in the UK in March 2013. The U.S. edition of Hello World is to be published by the Overlook Press in February 2014, followed by various foreign-language editions. Her previous books include an acclaimed biography of the fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent.
In addition, Rawsthorn has contributed essays and interviews to a number of books on design and art, including Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec: Bivouac (Hélène Guenin and Laurent Le Bon, eds); Hella Jongerius: Misfit (Louise Schouwenberg, ed); Designing Media (Bill Moggridge); The Infamous Chair: 220º Virus Monobloc (Arnd Friedrichs and Kerstin Finger, eds.); Articulado (Articulado, ed.), AC/DC: Contemporary Art, Contemporary Design (Jean-Pierre Greff, ed.); Rises in the East: A Gallery in Whitechapel (Katrina Schwartz and Hannah Vaughan, eds.); Frieze Projects and Frieze Talks: 2006–2008 (Neville Wakefield and Jennifer Higgie, eds.); Women of Design: Influence and Inspiration (Bryony Gomez-Paladio and Armin Vit eds.); Don’t Buy It If You Don’t Need It (Martí Guixé, ed.); Fashion Theory: A Reader (Malcolm Barnard, ed.); Frieze Projects: Artists Commissions and Talks 2003–2005 (Polly Staple and Melissa Gronlund eds.), and a monograph of the work of the industrial designer Marc Newson.
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Alice Rawsthorn’s favorite place to buy books (it’s in Cambridge), the best “book as object” she owns (it’s very small), and more answers to The Proust Questionnaire—Book Edition.
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