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Celem tej pracy jest osadzenie współczesnej architektury w continuum cywilizacji, dlatego autor pozostaje przy renesansowym terminie: sztuka budowania - res aedificatoria. Stawia tezę o istnieniu współczesnego paradygmatu, który pozwala porozumiewać się we wspólnym języku twórcom, teoretykom i odbiorcom architektury.
Architect Louis Kahn discovered late in life how to transform the ruins of ancient Rome into modern buildings. His pursuit of an ideal geometric order was informed by a keen sense of history. Based on platonic shapes, his buildings, at once monumental and human in scale, marked the end of the international style and opened the way for a revival of vernacular and classical traditions. These themes are documented in a lavishly illustrated retrospective survey which accompanies a traveling exhibition. Brownlee, associate professor of art history, and DeLong, professor of architecture, both at the University of Pennsylvania, track Kahn's prodigious career in intimate essays followed by a 160-page pictorial section analyzing 14 key projects.
