Louis I. Kahn: Light, Pastel, Eternity
As part of its ongoing Louis I. Kahn exhibition, the Kimbell Art Museum is offering a free lecture by Michael J. Lewis, Faison-Pierson-Stoddard Professor of Art History at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, Friday, April 21, at 6 p.m., in the Piano Pavilion Auditorium. No reservations are required.
The lecture – Louis I. Kahn: Light, Pastel, Eternity – will show how Kahn’s travel sketches were crucial to his development as an architect and kept alive the memory of the great buildings of the past at a time when modernism had forgotten history.
Louis I. Kahn is architecture’s greatest late bloomer, the museum said in a news release. The classical architecture that he studied as a young man was made irrelevant by the Depression and World War II, forcing him to reinvent himself as a modernist. But in late life he rediscovered his architectural roots, which led him to forge the imaginative synthesis of classicism and modernism that is the central achievement of his career.
Kahn designed the original Kimbell building, and the current show include rarely displayed pastels loaned for exhibit by his family.
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– FWBP Staff