Louis Kahn: Conversations with Students (Architecture at Rice, 26)

Louis Kahn (1901-74) is one of the most renowned practitioners of international modernism, on a par with Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe in the extent of his influence on subsequent generations of …

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