Our Days Are Like Full Years: A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn by Pattison, Harriet

Our Days Are Like Full Years: A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn

An intimate glimpse into the professional and romantic relationship between Harriet Pattison and the renowned architect Louis...
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Author: Harriet Pattison
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Our Days Are Like Full Years: A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn by Pattison, Harriet

Our Days Are Like Full Years: A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn

$56.50

Our Days Are Like Full Years: A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn

$56.50
Author: Harriet Pattison
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
An intimate glimpse into the professional and romantic relationship between Harriet Pattison and the renowned architect Louis Kahn

On a winter day in 1953, a mysterious man in a sheepskin coat stood out to Harriet Pattison, then a theater student at Yale. She would later learn he was the architect Louis Kahn (1901-1974). This chance encounter served as preamble to a fifteen-year romance, with Pattison becoming the architect's closest confidante, his intellectual partner, and the mother of his only son.

Here for the first time, Pattison recounts their passionate and sometimes searing relationship. Married and twenty-seven years her senior, Kahn sent her scores of letters--many from far-flung places--until his untimely death. This book weaves together Pattison's own story with letters, postcards, telegrams, drawings, and photographs that reveal Kahn's inner life and his architectural thought process, including new insight into some of his greatest works, both built and unbuilt. What emerges is at once a poignant love story and a vivid portrait of a young woman striving to raise a family while forging an artistic path in the shadow of her famous partner.


Author: Harriet Pattison
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 10/27/2020
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 4.20lbs
Size: 10.20h x 8.30w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780300223125

About the Author
Harriet Pattison, FASLA, is a distinguished landscape architect. She was Louis Kahn's romantic partner from 1959 to 1974, and his collaborator on the landscapes of the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, and the F.D.R. Memorial/Four Freedoms Park, New York. She is the mother of their son, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn.


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