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Louis Kahn: The Importance of a Drawing
Louis Kahn: The Importance of a Drawing
Edited by Michael Merrill
Publisher: Lars Müller Publishers
Published: October 2021
The first in-depth study of drawings as primary sources of insight into architect Louis Kahn’s architecture and creative imagination. Based on unprecedented archival research, with over 900 illustrations and written contributions by Michael Benedikt, Michael Cadwell, David Leatherbarrow, Louis Kahn, Nathaniel Kahn, Sue Ann Kahn, Michael J. Lewis, Robert McCarter, Michael Merrill, Marshall Meyers, Jane Murphy, Gina Pollara, Harriet Pattison, Colin Rowe, David Van Zanten, Richard Wesley, and William Whitaker.
Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World’s Most Creative People by Debbie Millman
Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World's Most Creative People
By Debbie Millman
Publisher: Harper Design
Forthcoming: February 22, 2022
Debbie Millman—author, educator, brand consultant, and host of the widely successful and award-winning podcast “Design Matters”—showcases dozens of her most exciting interviews, bringing together insights and reflections from today’s leading creative minds from across diverse fields.
Design Emergency: Building a Better Future by Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli
Design Emergency: Building a Better Future
By Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Forthcoming May 25, 2022
Rawsthorn and Antonelli tell the stories of the remarkable designers, architects, engineers, artists, scientists, and activists who are at the forefront of positive change worldwide. Focusing on four themes—Technology, Society, Communication, and Ecology—the authors present a unique portrait of how our great creative minds are developing new design solutions to the major challenges of our time, while helping us to benefit from advances in science and technology.
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.
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.
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Susan Weber
Susan Weber was born in New York. She received her A.B. degree (1977) from Barnard College-Columbia University, New York City, her M.A. (1990) from The Cooper-Hewitt Museum/Parsons School of Design, New York City, and her Ph.D. (1998) from the Royal College of Art, London.
Weber founded the Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, a two-year graduate program leading to a master’s degree in the decorative arts, in 1991. It is the only program in the United States that studies the decorative arts of all cultures. In 1998 the Bard Graduate Center (BGC) introduced a doctoral program in the decorative arts, the first of its kind in this country. Weber also is the Publisher of Source: Notes in the History of Art, a quarterly journal devoted to all aspects of art history and archaeology.
Before founding the Bard Graduate Center, Weber was Executive Director of The Open Society Fund, Inc., a private foundation that supports internationally the advancement of freedom of expression and cultural exchange through grants to individuals and associations. She also was Associate Producer of two films: In Search of Rothko, a 28-minute film on the life and work of the painter Mark Rothko, and The Big Picture, a 58-minute film on the New York School of Art, shown as part of the New York State exhibition New York: The State of Art. She also was Assistant Director of this exhibition.
Susan Weber serves as a Trustee of Bard College. She is a member of the Chairman's Council of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Visiting Committee of the European Sculpture and Decorative Arts department and the Watson Library. In addition, she is a member of the Architecture and Design Acquisitions Committee of The Museum of Modern Art, is on the Applied Art Committee of the American Association of Museums, and is a member of the Furniture History Society and the International Council of Museums.
Weber is the author of The Secular Furniture of E.W. Godwin and editor and contributing author of the catalogue E. W. Godwin: Aesthetic Movement Architect and Designer. The catalogue was the result of the exhibition of the same name curated by Weber and presented at the Bard Graduate Center in 1999–2000. She is the co-author of Thomas Jeckyll: Architect and Designer, 1827–1881, and curator of the corresponding exhibition presented at the Bard Graduate Center in 2003. She is the co-editor and contributing author of Castellani and Italian Archaeological Jewelry, which accompanied the fall 2004 exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center, which she co-curated. In 2006 she was the curator and editor of the exhibition and catalogue accompanying James “Athenian” Stuart, 1713–1788: The Rediscovery of Antiquity. Currently she is working on the exhibition and catalogue for The American Circus, scheduled for 2012, and William Kent, scheduled for 2013.
She is the recipient of many awards, most recently including an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Institute of British Architects (2011), an Honorary Senior Research Fellowship from the Victoria and Albert Museum (2010), Soane Foundation Honors from Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation (2010), an award from the Università di Roma for her contributions to the cultural world through the exhibition Castellani and Italian Archaeological Jewelry (2004), the Philip C. Johnson Award of the Society of Architectural Historians (2005), the Exhibition and Catalogue Award from The Victorian Society in America, Metropolitan Chapter (2004), the Henry Russell Hitchcock Book Award from the Victorian Society in America (2004), the AFA Cultural Leadership Award (2003), the Bezalel Educator in the Arts Award (2002), the George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award (2000), the Henry-Russell Hitchcock Award from The Victorian Society in America (2000), the Philip C. Johnson Award of the Society of Architectural Historians (2000), the Spirit of the City Award from the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine (1999), the Woman of Achievement Award from Barnard College (1997), and the National Arts Club Gold Medal Award (1997).