by James Steele · Phaidon GB · ISBN 9780714842141
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«Salk Institute» is the architecture essay by James Steele, published by Phaidon in paperback in 2002 (60 pages, in English).
The book analyses Louis Kahn's Salk Institute in La Jolla (California), a research centre built between 1959 and 1965 on a cliff overlooking the Pacific. Drawing on an introductory essay, photographs, drawings and technical details, it examines the materiality, structural modulation and the work and meeting spaces of the complex.
It is a volume in Phaidon's Architecture in Detail series, focused on distinctive buildings selected for their character, design or technique.
It is aimed at architecture students and professionals interested in the monographic analysis of modern buildings.
