Item #20386 Louis I. Kahn and the Yale Center for British Art: A Conservation Plan. Conservation, Peter Inskip, in association Stephen Gee, Constance Clement.

Louis I. Kahn and the Yale Center for British Art: A Conservation Plan.

New Haven, CT: Yale Center for British Art, 2011. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Oblong quarto, pp. 200, indexed, illustrated with color photographs. As New in Fine DJ. Item #20386

The standing of the Yale Center for British Art as one of the world's great museums and study centers finds expression in its remarkable building, designed by Louis I. Kahn. In this important and innovative volume, two architects offer a plan to ensure the proper stewardship of the building in order to preserve its essence as a great architectural structure. The authors describe the design, construction, and subsequent renovation of the building; assess its cultural significance; analyse the materials that comprise it (steel, concrete, glass, white oak, and travertine); and shed light on its evolution over the four decades since it was built. Drawing on their extensive experience developing conservation plans for both important sites and modern buildings, they propose a series of policies for the Center's conservation into the future.

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