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Louis Isadore Kahn (1901 – 1974) was an American architect based in Philadelphia whose proposals and teaching made him one of the most influential architects of the twentieth century. Kahn created a monumental and monolithic style. For the most part, his massive buildings do not hide their weight, their materials, or the way they are assembled.
In 1960, the Salk Institute was commissioned by Jonas Salk, developer of the first safe and effective polio vaccine. Salk selected world-renowned architect Louis I. Kahn to design the research facility he envisioned would contribute to humankind’s betterment. Salk directed…
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Completed in 1972, the Philips Exeter Academy Library is acknowledged to be among Louis Kahn’s most successful buildings. The structure stands 80-feet high and 111-feet wide on all four sides. Its façade is primarily built in brick with teak wood…
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The Olivetti Underwood Factory was designed by acclaimed American architect Louis Kahn in 1966 and completed in 1970. Olivetti, an Italian company, commissioned Kahn the building to manufacture their Underwood line of typewriters and related products.
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Greek architecture taught me that the column is where the light is not, and the space between is where the light is. It is a matter of no-light, light, no-light, light. A column and a column brings light between them….
The Kimbell Art Museum, designed by Louis I. Kahn in 1972, is widely regarded as one of the modern era’s outstanding architectural achievements. Kahn created a building in which “light is the theme.” Natural light enters through narrow plexiglass skylights…
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Completed in 1974, the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, better known as IIM Ahmedabad or simply IIMA, is a management institute located in Ahmedabad, India. The old campus was designed by Louis Kahn, who was an exponent of exposed-brick architecture,…
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A city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a small boy, as he walks through it, may see something that will tell him what he wants to do his whole life. – Louis Kahn
