A Message:
From Nathaniel Kahn
Richard Saul Wurman and Eugene Feldman’s Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn was the first book devoted to my father’s art, and he loved it. Often he would stop by the Joseph Fox Bookshop on Sansom Street in Philadelphia to peruse the shelves, and apparently enjoyed leafing through copies of Notebooks and Drawings just to remind himself of the varied works “Ricky” had chosen to include. Two copies of the book—which are quite beautiful with their linen binding and gold embossing—were in fact among my father’s last purchases before departing on his fateful trip to India in March 1974; but more of this story in the forthcoming reedition now underway from Steve Kroeter. I am thrilled that this treasured book, long unavailable, will now be reissued in a splendid facsimile edition along with a study guide with contributions, including my own, that will help contextualize it and introduce it to a new generation.
Nathaniel Kahn — September 2020
Messages From:
Steven Kroeter—
"Louis Kahn was a genius, a man of transcendent human superiority.
. . . He left the world a richer place."
These words appeared in an editorial in the Philadelphia Inquirer on March 21, 1974, shortly after Kahn’s death.
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Richard Saul Wurman—
The word “indulgence” has connotations that people often try to distance themselves from. I feel quite differently. All the work I’ve done has been slathered with indulgence. It has been my modus operandi.
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William Whitaker—
Wurman and Feldman’s Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn is a big book not just by the measure of its folio size but by audaciously and courageously getting you into the head of the architect.
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