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Louis I. Kahn's Jewish Architecture
Susan G. Solomon
其他書名
Mikveh Israel and the Midcentury American Synagogue
出版
Brandeis University Press
, 2015-05-01
主題
Social Science / Jewish Studies
Architecture / General
ISBN
161168868X
9781611688689
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=uLpyCQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.