Louis Kahn
Louis Isadore Kahn (February 20, 1901 ? March 17, 1974) practised as an architect in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and taught architecture there and at Yale University.
Important works
- Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut (1951?1953), the first significant commission of Louis Kahn and his first masterpiece, replete with technical innovations, like a floor slab system giving access to mechanical systems, and a somewhat 'brutalist' shock to Yale's neo-Gothic context.
- Richards Medical Research Laboratories, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (1957?1965), regarding which Kahn said, ?No space you can devise can satisfy these requirements. I thought what they should have was a corner for thought, in a word, a studio instead of slices of space?.
- Jonas Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, (1959?1965), divided into work and contemplative spaces suffused with light and the ocean.
- Phillips Exeter Academy Library, Exeter, New Hampshire, (1965?1972).
- Jatiyo Sangshad Bhaban (National Assembly Building) in Dhaka, Bangladesh (1962?1974), considered to be his masterpiece and one of the great monuments of International Modernism.
- Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, (1967?1972).
- Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, (1969?1974).
- Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in India
He was no relation to fellow American architect Albert Kahn.
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