Louis Kahn, Architect, Building, Studio, US, Projects, Office, Works, Houses

Louis Kahn Architect : Architecture Information + Images

Key 20th Century American Architect Practice

Key Louis Kahn Building Yale University Art Gallery Louis Kahn / Polshek Partnership Architects, LLP Yale University Art Gallery (left to right: Kahn Building, Old Yale Art Gallery, and Street Hall), South Exterior Elevation: image © Ennead Architects Yale Art Gallery On December 12, 2012, the Yale University Art Gallery celebrates the grand opening of the renovated and expanded museum. Louis Kahn - Key Projects Major Developments by Louis Kahn Architect, alphabetical: Erdman Hall Dormitories & Cafeteria, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA 1960-65 Esherick House, Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania 1959-61 Exeter Library, Exeter, New Hampshire, USA 1967-72 First Unitarian Church, Rochester, New York, USA 1959-67 Institute of Public Administration, Ahmedabad, India 1963 Kimbell Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, USA 1967-72 National Assembly, Dacca, Bangladesh 1962-74 Norman Fisher House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1960 Richards Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1957-61 Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, USA 1959-66 Trenton Bath House, Trenton, New Jersey, USA 1954-59 Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA 1969-74 Yale University Art Center, New Haven, Connecticut 1951-53/54

Louis Kahn, Architect - Practice Information

Louis I. Kahn
1901-74
Yale University Art Gallery was his first major project

Louis Isadore Kahn - Jewish architect born in Saaremaa, Russia (now Estonia).
Louis Kahn was born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky in Kuressaare. His family emigrated to the USA in 1905. He lived and worked in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Louis Kahn building : Brief Review of the Exeter Library

Louis Kahn - Teaching

Professor of Architecture: Yale University 1947-57
Dean, Professor of Architecture: University of Pennsylvania 1957-

Louis Kahn - Education

University of Pennsylvania: Masters Degree 1924

Pupils included Robert Venturi and Moshe Safdie

He died in Pennsylvania Station in New York

Nathaniel Kahn film released in 2003 called My Architect: A Son's Journey,

Louis Kahn Memorial Park : Pine Sreet, Philadelphia

Louis Kahn : Modern Architect



American Architects

Louis Kahn : Philadelphia Architect

Louis Kahn protege : Robert Venturi

Louis Kahn - Awards

American Institute of Architects Twenty-Five Year Award:
Phillips Exeter Academy Library

AIA Gold Medal : 1971
RIBA Gold Medal : 1972

American Architecture

photo : Peter Aaron

Pennsylvania Buildings

Louis Kahn Pupil : Moshe Safdie

Modern Architects

Architecture Studios

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