PositiveThe Buffalo NewsBiographers of architects inevitably have to calculate how much weight to give to the architect’s life and how much to his work. This choice is especially acute with Louis I. Kahn... Lesser begins the book with Kahn’s tragic death perhaps to capture our attention but her research, which involved massive archival work, innumerable interviews with family members and former colleagues, and trips to building sites all over the United States as well as India, Bangladesh, Israel, Estonia, and Italy, approaches the monumentality of Kahn’s best buildings ... By all the accounts from Lesser’s many interview subjects Kahn possessed a brilliance that radiated through piercing blue eyes and was communicated by way of a riveting attentiveness and a uniquely mystical form of speech such as that reflected in the title of the book, You Say To Brick.
