Author: Susan G. Solomon
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 161168868X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
In 1961, famed architect Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974) received a commission to design a new synagogue. His client was one of the oldest Sephardic Orthodox congregations in the United States: Philadelphia's Mikveh Israel. Due to the loss of financial backing, Kahn's plans were never realized. Nevertheless, the haunting and imaginative schemes for Mikveh Israel remain among Kahn's most revered designs. Susan G. Solomon uses Kahn's designs for Mikveh Israel as a lens through which to examine the transformation of the American synagogue from 1955 to 1970. She shows how Kahn wrestled with issues that challenged postwar Jewish institutions and evaluates his creative attempts to bridge modernism and Judaism. She argues that Kahn provided a fresh paradigm for synagogues, one that offered innovations in planning, decoration, and the incorporation of light and nature into building design.
Kahn on Codes
Author: David Kahn
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Hard Road of Dreams
Author: Robert Kahn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781945091193
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
Born under the influence of Nazi Germany, Robert Kahn's emotional journey plunges the reader through shifting shades of darkness and his eventual escape. This unusual and intriguing autobiography details a man's personal triumph while dealing with family, identity and traditions. His later contributions to the Department of Defense are startling in spite of his aversion to warfare. Written with honesty and determination - this autobiography contains no dramatization, only the rough edges of life.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781945091193
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
Born under the influence of Nazi Germany, Robert Kahn's emotional journey plunges the reader through shifting shades of darkness and his eventual escape. This unusual and intriguing autobiography details a man's personal triumph while dealing with family, identity and traditions. His later contributions to the Department of Defense are startling in spite of his aversion to warfare. Written with honesty and determination - this autobiography contains no dramatization, only the rough edges of life.
Louis I. Kahn's Jewish Architecture
Author: Susan G. Solomon
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 161168868X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
In 1961, famed architect Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974) received a commission to design a new synagogue. His client was one of the oldest Sephardic Orthodox congregations in the United States: Philadelphia's Mikveh Israel. Due to the loss of financial backing, Kahn's plans were never realized. Nevertheless, the haunting and imaginative schemes for Mikveh Israel remain among Kahn's most revered designs. Susan G. Solomon uses Kahn's designs for Mikveh Israel as a lens through which to examine the transformation of the American synagogue from 1955 to 1970. She shows how Kahn wrestled with issues that challenged postwar Jewish institutions and evaluates his creative attempts to bridge modernism and Judaism. She argues that Kahn provided a fresh paradigm for synagogues, one that offered innovations in planning, decoration, and the incorporation of light and nature into building design.
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 161168868X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
In 1961, famed architect Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974) received a commission to design a new synagogue. His client was one of the oldest Sephardic Orthodox congregations in the United States: Philadelphia's Mikveh Israel. Due to the loss of financial backing, Kahn's plans were never realized. Nevertheless, the haunting and imaginative schemes for Mikveh Israel remain among Kahn's most revered designs. Susan G. Solomon uses Kahn's designs for Mikveh Israel as a lens through which to examine the transformation of the American synagogue from 1955 to 1970. She shows how Kahn wrestled with issues that challenged postwar Jewish institutions and evaluates his creative attempts to bridge modernism and Judaism. She argues that Kahn provided a fresh paradigm for synagogues, one that offered innovations in planning, decoration, and the incorporation of light and nature into building design.
Louis I. Kahn's Trenton Jewish Community Center
Author: Susan G. Solomon
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 9781568982267
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The Building Studies series examines important buildings through original documents, detailed text, photography, and drawings in an affordable format.
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 9781568982267
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The Building Studies series examines important buildings through original documents, detailed text, photography, and drawings in an affordable format.
The Trouble with Literature
Author: Victoria Kahn
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192536230
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This book, based on the Clarendon Lectures in English for 2017, argues that the literature of the English Reformation marks a turning point in Western thinking about literature and literariness. But instead of arguing that the Reformation fostered English literature, as scholars have often done, Victoria Kahn claims that literature helped undo the Reformation, with implications for both poetry and belief. Ultimately, literature in the Reformation is one vehicle by which religious belief was itself transformed into a human artifact, whether we understand this as a poetic artifact or a mental fiction. This transformation in turn helped produce the eighteenth-century discipline of aesthetics, with its emphasis on our experience of non-cognitive pleasure in the work of art, and the modern formalist definition of literature, according to which—in the words of one critic—'literature solves no problems and saves no souls.' This modern definition of literature, in short, has a history, this history is intertwined with the problem of belief, and by returning to the fraught years of the late sixteenth and seventeenth century in England, we can come to a new understanding of how the trouble with literature has shaped our discipline. The first lecture contrasts modern and early modern understandings of literature and literariness. The second and third lectures focus on Thomas Hobbes and John Milton. The fourth lecture treats the work of Immanuel Kant, Søren Kierkegaard, and J.M. Coetzee.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192536230
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This book, based on the Clarendon Lectures in English for 2017, argues that the literature of the English Reformation marks a turning point in Western thinking about literature and literariness. But instead of arguing that the Reformation fostered English literature, as scholars have often done, Victoria Kahn claims that literature helped undo the Reformation, with implications for both poetry and belief. Ultimately, literature in the Reformation is one vehicle by which religious belief was itself transformed into a human artifact, whether we understand this as a poetic artifact or a mental fiction. This transformation in turn helped produce the eighteenth-century discipline of aesthetics, with its emphasis on our experience of non-cognitive pleasure in the work of art, and the modern formalist definition of literature, according to which—in the words of one critic—'literature solves no problems and saves no souls.' This modern definition of literature, in short, has a history, this history is intertwined with the problem of belief, and by returning to the fraught years of the late sixteenth and seventeenth century in England, we can come to a new understanding of how the trouble with literature has shaped our discipline. The first lecture contrasts modern and early modern understandings of literature and literariness. The second and third lectures focus on Thomas Hobbes and John Milton. The fourth lecture treats the work of Immanuel Kant, Søren Kierkegaard, and J.M. Coetzee.
Fritz Kahn. Infographics Pioneer
Author: Uta von Debschitz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783836567756
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Natural science buffs, graphics professionals, and anyone interested in the visual expression of ideas will be fascinated by this tribute to Fritz Kahn, the German infographics pioneer who excelled in the demystification of complex scientific ideas and whose inspired creative concepts have influenced generations of artists and communicators...
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783836567756
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Natural science buffs, graphics professionals, and anyone interested in the visual expression of ideas will be fascinated by this tribute to Fritz Kahn, the German infographics pioneer who excelled in the demystification of complex scientific ideas and whose inspired creative concepts have influenced generations of artists and communicators...
Crocker-Langley San Francisco Directory
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : San Francisco (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : San Francisco (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
Book Description
New York City Directory
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1910
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1910
Book Description
The 1942 State-Wide Nominating Petitions and List of Signatures and Addresses which Appeared Thereon, Filed by the Communist Party with the Secretary of State in the State of New York
Author: Estados Unidos. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities (1938-1944)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
Book Description
This Thing of Giving
Author: Henry H. Rosenfelt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description