The Salk Institute (Building Block Series)

About this book

These new titles in the Building Blocks series showcase four more icons of modern architecture as portrayed by renowned architectural photographer Ezra Stoller. Two buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright Fallingwater and Taliesin West Louis Kahns Salk Institute and Mies van der Rohes Seagram Building are shown in original condition with original furnishings as the architects intended them to be seen. Wrights integration of architecture and landscape Kahns dramatic yet humane monumentality and Miess austere elegance are revealed and preserved in Stollers classic compositions. Small elegant and affordable each volume presents the photo-graphs that made these structures famous. With 60 rich duotone plates (and 16 color plates for Taliesin West) a brief introduction and newly drawn plans sections and elevations these books constitute the essential photographic histories of the most important works of modernism.