2024-11-14T11:48:47-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150247311/publisher-to-launch-kickstarter-campaign-to-reissue-the-notebooks-and-drawings-of-louis-i-kahn Sean Joyner 2021-01-29T12:46:00-05:00 >2024-10-25T04:07:38-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/74/74ca65d0d98e486ed41a4fb9efb22d61.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Designers &amp; Books is launching a Kickstarter on February 17 to issue <em>The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn</em>, long out of print, in a new facsimile edition. Created by Richard Saul Wurman, along with printer Eugene Feldman, and first published in 1962 (second edition, 1973). The book features sketches from Kahn's travels and drawings of selected projects, paired with texts from his personal notebooks and unpublished speeches.</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/4c/4cc540395d7407ca427f9d99eeae0258.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/4c/4cc540395d7407ca427f9d99eeae0258.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>1956 study for center city Philadelphia, ink on tracing paper</figcaption></figure><figure><figure><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/01/01c38abbc96f1d120bf4b9f54f186573.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/01/01c38abbc96f1d120bf4b9f54f186573.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a><figcaption>1957 A.N. Richards Medical Research Building, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, definitive study, pencil on tracing paper</figcaption></figure></figure><p>This reproduction will be accompanied by an extensive Reader's Guide, which will include new writings by a variety of critics and colleagues as well as personal recollections. Additional visual material will also accompany the work, including many previously unpublished.</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/55/55b4fa48045d94ffbd004686d0862346.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/55/55b4fa48045d94ffbd004686d0862346.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>1962 Graham Foundation studies for center city Philadelphia, plan diagram, ink</figcaption></figure><figure><figure><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/55/5580ce84384c24012308a30853a8f719.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/55/5580ce84384c24012308a30853a8f719.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a><figcaption>Mikveh Israel Synagogue...</figcaption></figure></figure>