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"Wendy Lesser's You Say to Brick is easily the most complete narrative of Kahn's life and career, magnificently researched and gracefully written . . . Her account is packed with insights, of both the architectural and psychological kind . . . Kahn died far from the light. With Lesser's biography, the illumination is restored." ―Inga Saffron, New York Times Book Review"Lesser writes beautifully and engagingly . . . What Lesser adds to the Kahn narrative isn’t simply a pragmatic understanding of his personal life. She allows the women in his life to emerge as far more than mere satellites to a great male ego . . . The success of this biography lies in the author’s fundamental acceptance of the messiness of human life." ―Philip Kennicott, Washington Post "[Lesser] has an innate feel for Kahn’s architecture . . . Her biography is not the first we have of Kahn, but it is notable for its warm, engaged, literate tone and its psychological acuity." ―Dwight Garner, New York Times"[An] excellent new biography of Louis Kahn . . . Wendy Lesser has done the architect a great service with her compelling and even-handed biography, honouring [Kahn's] belief that much can be learned if one takes the time to listen to the materials at hand." ―Jessica Loudis, Times Literary Supplement"[Lesser is] too smart a writer to waste her time tilting against the windmill of celebrity architecture. Instead, she plays with the form of architectural biography to create a narrative that at once seems to accept the realities of our time and to transcend them . . . Lesser has accomplished something very important here . . . She has helped us feel the powerful emotional connection to space and form and light and materials that Kahn himself felt, and that is far more than most architects’ biographies manage to do." ―Paul Goldberger, The Nation"Fascinating . . . This remarkable, readable and humane book pairs painstaking research with poetic interpretations. No detail is too small, as long as it sheds light on one of the 20th century’s most admired, influential architects." ―Claude Peck, Minneapolis Star Tribune "[A] monumental new biography . . . Lesser is a keen observer . . . In You Say to Brick, her subtle interpretations of conversational remarks by Kahn's intimates, and especially of Kahn's written ephemera, are luminous and deep." ―Thomas de Monchaux, n+1"[You Say to Brick] offers an impressively complete profile of Kahn . . . This volume joins the 2003 film My Architect, directed by Kahn's son, Nathaniel, as an essential document of the architect's life." ―Julian Rose, Bookforum"[A] superb new biography . . . A careful historian who also has a keen sense of the big picture, [Lesser] bores deeply into Kahn’s complicated life, ultimately describing his architecture with as much sympathy and sophistication as she brings to her analysis of his relationships with colleagues, clients, and family members. . . Lesser, throughout, makes astute and sometimes surprising connections between the details of Kahn’s personal history and his architecture." ―Christopher Hawthorne, Architect Magazine "The book is superbly researched . . . Ms Lesser captures the charisma of Kahn." ―The Economist"Lesser's book is lyrical and personal . . . Lesser builds a truthful, appreciative profile of Philadelphia's most prominent modernist." ―Philadelphia Inquirer "Wendy Lesser has ingeniously organized her book . . . Her research . . . approaches the monumentality of Kahn's best buildings. Biographers who write about architects sometimes err when it comes to the treatment of the work but not Lesser." ―Jack Quinan, Buffalo News "If [You Say to Brick] inspires us to do more, whether to seek out deeper study of [Kahn's] works on our own or to see the world with wider, more curious eyes, then Lesser has done something that the best biographers can hope to do but which only a portion of them achieve. That she does so with a voice that can appeal to the uninitiated as well as the scholar makes You Say to Brick all the more impressive, and a deep source of inspiration." ―Spectrum Culture"[You Say to Brick is] a riveting account of Kahn's life . . . Lesser’s biography, at once reverential and bracingly candid, serves as a powerful epitaph to Kahn’s achievements." ―Julia Klein, The Forward"[Lesser is] a critic of unusual scope . . . [A]n intriguing speculation about the inner drives that propelled [Kahn] to brilliant design and to numerous affairs, illegitimate children, and chaotic business practices." ―Harvard Magazine "Stellar . . . Extensively researched . . . A splendid biography that penetrates the inner lives of Kahn's buildings as well as the inner life of their creator." ―Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"[A] supremely enlightening and involving chronicle of an avid and complicated creative life . . . Lesser tracks with clarity and drama each demanding phase in Kahn's evolution as an ardent and magnetic architect and teacher" ―Booklist (starred review)"Exhaustively researched and poetically written, [You Say to Brick] offers a fitting and eminently accessible tribute to an architect who so ardently sought to bring beauty to the public square." –Publishers Weekly“Louis Kahn has long eluded serious attention. He needed careful, fierce, and passionate study to bring alive his remarkable life and work. In Wendy Lesser he has found the perfect interlocutor. This book is a triumph.â€â€•Edmund de Waal “Louis Kahn was in many ways the philosopher king of American architecture, and the masterful buildings he produced exert a hold on us that is even more powerful now than at his death more than four decades ago. Wendy Lesser’s You Say to Brick combines a compelling narrative of Kahn’s unusual life with a sensitive and knowing analysis of his extraordinary architecture. Few architectural biographies manage to be engaging, thought-provoking, and uplifting at the same time, but this one does.†―Paul Goldberger“We are always intrigued, with great artists we respect, to learn how and what about their personal lives inspired their work. Wendy Lesser’s You Say to Brick succeeds in realizing Kahn’s long journey from his youth in Europe to his late recognition as one of the great architects of the twentieth century.†―Moshe Safdie“The American architect Louis Kahn was a luminous man, full of secrets, who made some of the most beautiful buildings of the modern era. He was powerfully drawn to the romance of beginnings (in his love affairs no less than in his art), but he also understood modern concrete. In You Say To Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn, Wendy Lesser knows that she has an important but also wonderfully tricky subject on her hands. She brings to life the public art and the private man in ways that do admirable justice to both.†―Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan"I was very pleased to read this wonderfully written book. It took me back to the memories of my time and conversation with Lou. I must add that this book has indeed recorded and documented his life very well, and it brings the history of Kahn's work and life alive." ―Balkrishna Doshi
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About the Author
Wendy Lesser is the founder and editor of The Threepenny Review and the author of a novel and several previous books of nonfiction, including Why I Read (FSG, 2014), which garnered rave reviews from coast to coast. She has written for The New York Times Book Review, the London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, and other publications. To complete this biography, she was awarded one of the first National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar awards, the only one given to a Californian in 2015.
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Product details
Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (March 14, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0374279977
ISBN-13: 978-0374279974
Product Dimensions:
6.4 x 1.4 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.8 out of 5 stars
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This book is Outstanding. I was a student of Mr. Kahn's and have been an admirer for decades. This book presents a number of new facts of his life that aren't common knowledge. Would have liken to have had a greater exposure of his other projects. More on the Trenton Bath House would have been of interest, possibly a discussion of one of his house designs, insights on how the Richards Towers are a glowing piece of architecture but falls short on supporting biomedical research, but lessons learned were applied at Salk. On Salk would be interested to learn more about the relationship between owner/architect/engineer. Oveall found the book of great interest, could put it down, and finished it in a few days.
You Say to Brick is the biography of American architect, Louis Kahn (1901-1974). Although his output was few, he was regarded as one of the greatest architects of the 20th century. His ‘masterpieces’ were all built during the last 15 years of his life, and are described as both timeless and of his time. The title of the biography comes from Kahn’s explanation of how he designs buildings: ‘If you say to brick, ‘Arches are expensive, and I can use a concrete lintel over an opening. What do you think of that, brick?’ Brick says, I like an arch.’’This biography begins at the end; the last days of Louis Kahn’s life, his death, and his funeral – at the age of 73. He left a wife Esther and daughter Sue Ann. But he also had two children to two other women. The biography not only details the public life of Louis Kahn, it also bring to light his secretive personal life. He was described as an ‘elusive’ man. The biography then dedicates a chapter to each of Kahn’s major designs. But many of his designs were never built.Was Louis Kahn a mystic or a man of agony? Lesser combines the professional man with the personal man, and shows the complexity of his life and architecture in a fascinating and compelling biography.
Very well written book about a seminal American architect of the 20th century, I already knew much about Kahn but this filled in the gaps and rounded out the picture, a good read.
This is the best, and most descriptive, biography I have read about Lou Kahn. As I was at Penn when Lou was there I remembered most of the people. It is extremely well written moving from his life's story to detailed explanations of some of his best projects. I highly recommend this book.
Wendy Lesser's "You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn", is one of the finest biographies I've read. Her subject, Louis Kahn, was a complicated man who lived an ultra-complicated life. As a world-renowned architect, Kahn designed public buildings from Fort Worth to New Hampshire to India and Pakistan. Those are just a few of the ones seen to completion; many other designs - both public and private - were never built but live on in design reviews. He died in his early 70's, alone in a New York train station, from a heart attack. But his designs live on, long after his death, both in the structures themselves and in books and movies about him.Does creativity bring with it some negative factors along with the positive? Louis Kahn immigrated to the United States from the Baltic area as a child and was raised in a working class family in Philadelphia. His face and hands had been badly burned as a small boy, but his mind and his confidence seemed to override the problems that such severe scarring might inflict. Like his fellow architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Kahn was a great ladies man, fathering a child each with two women he worked with. This was in addition to his wife and daughter. He was self-admittedly a lousy business man and his architecture firm was in great debt at his death. But he was a man who inspired loyalty and good work from those he employed. He was a man who left his mark on the world.Wendy Lesser's book is a well-written, even-handed look at both Kahn's public and private life. She also lhighlights five of Kahn's most famous buildings; the Salk Center, the Kimbell Museum, the library at Phillips Exeter, and two buildings in India and Bengladesh. She also explains the title of her book, which is quite interesting because it's a glimpse inside Louis Kahn's thoughts about building. For the armchair architecture buff, Lesser's book is a great read.
This book is the perfect complement to Nathaniel Kahn's documentary "My Architect". The author accomplishes the difficult task in an architectural biography of linking the work to the person and writing well about both. Like the subject of the book, her writing invites contemplation through its not strictly chronological flow. Beginning with his lonesome death in Penn Station she explores his lives and work. I say "lives" because this is the first print volume to really look at the parallel families he established and what they meant for his work and the persons involved. For me, as an architect in Philadelphia starting soon after he died, this book fills in voids from the first hand recollections that were shared by his clients and colleagues. A real accomplishment!
If you like to read about architecture or about the lives of truly different men...read this. Kahn was one of a kind. The book gives you insight into his life and his work. Truly memorable.
Very well done, with lots of research. i thought Ms Lesser did a great job of describing the buildings. Glad I read it.
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