252 pages with approx. 250 illustrations, 6 in color Romaldo Giurgola and Jaimini Mehta: LOUIS I. KAHN. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1976. Second edition [First Published by Verlag fur Architektur Artemis, Zurich, 1975; First American edition published by Westview Press, Boulder, 1975]. 10.5 x 10.5 hard cover book with 252 pages and approx. 250 illustrations, 6 in color. Louis Kahn developed from a somewhat dogmatic modernist into one who found his own style by incorporating the styles of the ancient world -- Greece, Egypt and Italy. Isamu Noguchi called him "a philosopher among architects." He is considered by some to be America's greatest architect since Frank Lloyd Wright. 

Contents An Homage to Louis I. Kahn by Jonas Salk 

Introduction 

Vocabulary and Imagery 

            Silence and Light: 

                        The House,Eight Projects 

                        The Sense of Man: The Place of Worship, Five Projects 

                        The Sense of Place: The Institutions, Eight Projects 

                        The Institutions of Man: The Place of Well-Being, Eleven Projects Architecture 

            The Place of Work, Five Projects 

The Universal and Eternal 

            The City, Three Projects 

The Architect as a Person 

Biography