Jules David Prown

Louis Kahn's interview in John Wesley Cook & Heinrich Klotz's "Conversation with Architects" exhibits the architect's signature enigmatic insights, but like the others in that book it was just a condensation of lengthier interviews that took place on multiple occasions. The full transcript of the five interviews made in 1969 and 1970 have been assembled forty years later into this book, complete with time markers in the sidebar next to questions and answers and chapters keyed by date and tape side. Obviously this book is for hardcore Kahn fans, and they will benefit from Prown and Denavit's thorough approach, which even indicates when Kahn was drawing something for the interviewers, with attempts made to find those sketches.… (meer)