Louis I. Kahn: Beyond Time and Style: A Life in Architecture »

Carter Wiseman teaches a seminar on Louis Kahn at Yale University. He lives in Weston, Connecticut. He is also the author of Twentieth-Century American Architecture.

The first in-depth biographical study of the brilliant but elusive architect who fundamentally redefined twentieth-century architecture.

Introduction     6
Arrival: Estonia, the Northern Liberties, and Penn (1901-24)     12
To Change the World: The Lean Years (1924-47)     28
Academia and Emergence: The Yale University Art Gallery (1947-53)     54
Back Home to Philadelphia: The Richards Medical Research Building (1957-64)     82
The Client Connection: The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (1959-65)     106
"A Degree of Utter Purity": The Subcontinent (1962-83)     136
A "Temple for Learning": The Phillips Exeter Academy Library (1965-72)     180
Light Unleashed: The Kimbell Art Museum (1966-72)     206
The Moth and the Butterfly: The Yale Center for British Art (1969-74)     236
Epilogue     264
Notes     269
Acknowledgments     278
Index     279