RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewYou Say to Brick is easily the most complete narrative of Kahn’s life and career, magnificently researched and gracefully written. As the founder of The Threepenny Review and a nonfiction author, Lesser has a background that’s literary, yet her account is packed with insights, of both the architectural and psychological kind ... For Kahn, there was never a line between love and work, and Lesser effectively shows how each of his long-term relationships was crucial to his development as an architect ... Lesser does readers a service by interspersing her narrative with 'In Situ' chapters that serve as guides to his designs and vividly conjure the experience of walking through his buildings ... Kahn died far from the light. With Lesser’s biography, the illumination is restored.
