Honoring the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Louis Kahn in March 1974 this facsimile
edition exquisitely reproduces the notebook in which the renowned American architect sketched
and wrote during his travels in the last year of his life. Anchored by a magnificent set of
drawings illustrating the final design of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park in New
York City (1973 74 posthumously completed in 2012) Louis I. Kahn: The Last Notebook provides
an intimate glimpse into the architect's mind and design process. These private sketches and
poetic reflections reveal Kahn's spiritual understanding of architecture as inclusive of our
total environment and shed new light on the architect's influential philosophy for designing
building and conceiving architecture. The facsimile pays close attention to the material
qualities of the original notebook replicating its delicate transparent paper. Made widely
available for the first time the publication includes transcriptions of Kahn's handwriting by
Sue Ann Kahn and a commentary by architectural critic and historian Michael J. Lewis.
Continuing on from earlier investigations into the importance of drawing in the iconic
architect's work at Lars Müller Publishers Louis I. Kahn: The Last Notebook replicates
sketching in its most raw pure form.
