H EADLINES
Famed Architect’s Work to Be Reproduced
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JESSE BERNSTEIN | JE STAFF
A RECENTLY COMPLETED
Kickstarter campaign will
fund the publication of a new
edition of the “Th e Notebooks
and Drawings of Louis I.

Kahn,” a collection of the
famed Philadelphia architect’s
sketches. Originally published in
1962, with a second edition
printed in 1973, the collection
has been out of print ever since.

Now, aft er raising more than
$130,000 between Feb. 18 and
April 2, Designers & Books, an
independent publisher based in
Brooklyn, will publish an exact
facsimile of the original, along-
side new material collected in a
Reader’s Guide.

Th e Reader’s Guide will
include a new essay from
TED Conferences founder
Richard Saul Wurman, Kahn’s
one-time student, mentee and
the original creator of the
book; Kahn’s three children,
including Nathaniel Kahn, who
directed an Academy Award-
nominated documentary about
his father; Larry Korman,
owner of the Kahn Korman
House in Fort Washington;
Jonathan Salk, son of Kahn’s
friend Jonas Salk; the famed
architect Moshe Safdie; and
many more.

“When I came across it and
actually had the chance to see
it, I immediately knew that it
was a book that I wanted us
to publish,” said Steve Kroeter,
editor in chief and founder of
Designers & Books.

Aft er Kroeter saw the book’s
original version for the fi rst time
a few years ago, he reached out
to Wurman with the idea to do
a reprint. Wurman agreed on
the condition that the reprint
be accompanied by a detailed
Reader’s Guide. Arrangements
were made, the funds were
raised and the two books are
now available for preorder at
louisikahn.com/shop. Kahn, born Itze-Leib
Schmuilowsky in 1901 on an
island off the coast of Estonia,
came to Philadelphia when he
was 4. He displayed a knack for
drawing from a young age — he
was off ered a full scholarship to
the Pennsylvania Academy of
the Fine Arts, according to the
Kimbell Art Museum — but
instead pursued architecture
studying at the University of
Pennsylvania aft er graduating
from Central High School.

Over the course of a long
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