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	Louis Kahn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Louis Isadore Kahn (February 20, 1901– March 17, 1974) practised as an architect in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and taught architecture there and at Yale University.
		Louis Kahn's work infused International style with a fastidious, highly personal taste, a poetry of light.
		Kahn was born on the Estonian island of Saaremaa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis_Kahn (621 words)

	Louis Kahn : Architect (1901-1974) - Design/Designer Info
		1901 Louis Isadore Kahn is born in Kingisepp on the island of Saaremaa, Estonia to Leopold and Bertha Kahn.
		When Louis Kahn’s corpse was found by the NYPD on the evening of 17 March 1974 in the public lavatory at Penn Station in New York, it took several days for the police to identify him as one of the world’s most admired architects.
		Kahn had died swiftly of a heart attack and the only form of identification among his possessions was his passport in which he had crossed out his address.
	www.designmuseum.org /designerex/louis-kahn.htm (2020 words)

	Kimbell Art Museum
		Louis Kahn's client, for what was to become his most famous commission, asked for a museum with a human scale and galleries with natural light.
		Kahn surpassed these conditions, creating his greatest built representation of the ideas he was constantly developing and reevaluating throughout his career, mainly shaping space through the unification of light and structure.
		The unnecessary porches (as referred to by Kahn) define the structural vocabulary of the whole museum: basically a concrete beam (100' x 23') in the shape of a cycloidal vault, supported by four square columns.
	www.archidose.org /Jan99/011899.htm (413 words)

	Kahn, Louis Isadore (1901-1974) -- Philadelphia Architects and Buildings
		Kahn was born in Estonia, the son of Bertha Mendelsohn and Leopold Kahn, and emigrated with his family to Philadelphia in 1906.
		In 1955, Kahn returned to the University of Pennsylvania as a teacher and as the designer of the Alfred Newtown Richards Medical Laboratories, which was soon recognized by contemporaries as a landmark modern statement that broke from International Style notions of universal space and prismatic steel and glass volumes.
		Kahn was named the Paul Cret Professor of Architecture in 1966, and would teach a master's studio at Penn with Norman Rice and G.
	www.philadelphiabuildings.org /pab/app/ar_display.cfm/21829 (1291 words)

	Louis Kahn - The Noguchi Museum
		Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974) was a major 20th century architect whose elegant buildings of cast concrete transformed the International Style of corporate modernism in a spiritual direction.
		Between 1961 and 1966 Louis Kahn collaborated with Isamu Noguchi on the design of a playground for Riverside Drive Park in New York City.
		Kahn's first important work was the Yale University Art Gallery (1952-54), completed while he was teaching architecture at Yale, from which he departed in 1957 to become Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.
	www.noguchi.org /kahn.html (153 words)

	Louis Kahn
		Kahn's theoretical point of departure was function but a function explored philosophically in respect to the essence of the building's intended use; of the "human institution" the building was to serve.
		Kahn was trained in the Beaux-Arts tradition at the University of Pennsylvania under Paul P. Cret and he worked at Cret's office in 1929-30.
		Kahn saw architectural elements, such as the column, arch, dome, and vault, in their capacity of molding light and shadow.
	www.rochesterunitarian.org /Kahn (1421 words)

	Salk Institute by Louis I. Kahn
		Louis Kahn designed the Salk Center in La Jolla...as an eloquent composition that is spatially and symbolically incomplete, with its two richly rhythmical buildings...[which] define a powerful axis that is open at each end and that constitutes thereby a significant gesture within an American landscape.
		Louis I. Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture
		Because the openness of the plaza is so important to the design, it is interesting to note that Kahn had a collaborator.
	www.galinsky.com /buildings/salk (595 words)

	Award-Winning Building
		Louis Isadore Kahn was born on February 20, 1901 in the town of Kingisepp on the island of Ösel in Estonia.
		Kahn and their three children (Louis was the oldest) followed in 1906, and the family settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where there were relatives nearby.
		Leopold Kahn, father of Louis, was Estonian and served as a paymaster in the Russian army.
	www.kimbellart.org /building/kahn_bio.cfm?id=7 (551 words)

	Sculpture in a Commemorative Landscape: Louis Kahn and Isamu Noguchi - The Noguchi Museum
		Noguchi's seminal collaboration with Louis Kahn on the design of Riverside Park Playground was preceded by a world tour that the artist undertook during the years 1949-50, under the auspices of the Bollingen Foundation, from which he had received a grant for the ostensible purpose of studying leisure on a transcultural basis.
		A fifth version, held in the Kahn archives, shows an additional interim stage in which the project is greatly simplified.(22) The central conical play mountain has been eliminated from this version while the slide tumulus is linked to the stair system.
		By this date a certain division of labor has arisen between the two men with Kahn handling the larger architectural elements, the retaining wall and ramp, the subterranean rooms (now lit from the sides through circular fenestration) together with the terraced amphitheater and play platform.
	www.noguchi.org /frampton.html (2604 words)

	Louis I. Kahn - Great Buildings Online
		New York, N.Y. Louis Kahn was born in Saarama (Saaremaa), Estonia in 1901.
		Readings from the Architecture of Louis I. Kahn
		Kahn's architecture is notable for its simple, platonic forms and compositions.
	www.greatbuildings.com /architects/Louis_I._Kahn.html (475 words)

	Kahn, Louis I -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		Kahn, Louis I. One of the most distinguished and innovative American architects in the second half of the 20th century was an Estonian emigrant named Louis Isadore Kahn.
		Designed by Louis I. Kahn and built in 1966 for polio vaccine pioneer Jonas Salk, the research complex was regarded as one of...
		Kahn, Louis I. American architect whose buildings, characterized by powerful, massive forms, made him one of the most discussed architects to emerge after World War II.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9368834 (892 words)

	Hop on Pop - A riveting new documentary about Louis Kahn, a great architect and not-so-great dad. By Christopher Hawthorne
		A riveting new documentary about Louis Kahn, a great architect and not-so-great dad.
		Kahn, who was 73 when he died in 1974, liked to use the simplest materials he could get his hands on, mostly brick and concrete.
		Kahn leaves a daughter, Sue Ann.") According to Nathaniel, he and his half-sisters didn't cross paths until the day of their father's funeral.
	slate.msn.com /id/2091250 (1146 words)

	My Architect (Louis Kahn) - Review at ArBITAT Views
		Louis Kahn was born in Estonia but grew up in North Philadelphia.
		Louis I. Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture
		Kahn's personal life was a mess, his firm was a mess, he lost money on every single project he ever worked on with the exception of the Salk Institute.
	views.arbitat.com /articles/031201.htm (1053 words)

	"My Architect": Nathaniel Kahn's Search for His Famous Father
		Perhaps tellingly, Louis Kahn's body lay in the city morgue for three days before it was claimed.
		When the architect Louis I. Kahn collapsed and died in the men's room of Penn Station in 1974, he left behind many things.
		Nathaniel Kahn's personal, first-person documentary "My Architect" (which opens at Film Forum on Wednesday and nationwide thereafter) takes measure of Louis Kahn as a person and an artist, the architect of many buildings, as well as three children.
	www.indiewire.com /people/people_031110kahn.html (2303 words)

	Louis Kahn
		Louis Kahn is the figurehead of an important transition in architectural culture, in which the late International Style of the post-war years was dissolved.
		For Kahn, these resulting complexes were analogous to cities, and like cities they were meant to provide frameworks for more varied human use, for individual choice, and for the resources that he often termed 'availabilities'.
		In conceiving his design together with ideas of eternity and creation, he reminds us that the simple placement of stones, like the room, is a beginning of architecture.
	intro2arch.arch.hku.hk /arch/Kahn/louis_kahn.htm (207 words)

	Louis Isadore Kahn : architect biography
		On a much larger scale, Louis Isadore Kahn envisioned Philadelphia's center city surrounded by a wall of parking towers that serves to defend the symbolic institutions in the pedestrian core from the encroaching automobile.
		Louis Isadore Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture: Condensed
		Louis I. Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture: Condensed
	architect.architecture.sk /louis-isadore-kahn-architect/louis-isadore-kahn-biography.php (1048 words)

	NPR : 'My Architect'
		Louis I. Kahn and Nathaniel Kahn circa 1970.
		Louis Kahn died mysteriously, with his address crossed out on his identification and half a million dollars in debt.
		Video: One of Louis Kahn's friends breaks down as he recalls meeting the documentary director as a young man, at the architect's funeral.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4531474 (564 words)

	Daily Toreador - Allen Theatre to screen Oscar-nominated documentary
		Louis I. Kahn is one of the most studied and respected figures in modern architecture.
		Kahn died in 1974 of a heart attack at the age of 73 in the restroom of Penn Station in Philadelphia.
		Nathaniel Kahn, now in his early 40s, narrates the film and is openly candid with his audience when he tells us that he had always hoped that his dad would choose to come live with he and his mother.
	www.universitydaily.net /vnews/display.v/ART/2004/04/05/4070cddf8f0f8 (650 words)

	WNYC - News - The Path of Kahn
		In one stream-of-consciousness scribble, Kahn mused, quote, "A work of art is the truth of a life it creates." But many people on Roosevelt Island are not sure they want art, truth and the lives of Franklin Roosevelt and Louis Kahn in their backyard.
		Louis Kahn envisioned two corridors of linden trees on either side, converging on a small plaza, about 55 yards long and 25 yards wide.
		NEW YORK, NY, January 12, 2005 — Louis Kahn died 30 years ago, and his stature as one of the 20th Century’s greatest architects has grown ever since.
	www.wnyc.org /news/articles/42666 (1209 words)

	Louis I. Kahn Memorial Park
		Gardens: The maintenance and beauty of Louis Kahn Park are our largest "activity." Volunteers from throughout the community and throughout the year work to plant and maintain the gardens, trees, bushes as well as the underlying Park infrastructure.
		In a tribute to Louis Kahn, this park was entirely re-built into an early rendition of the current design.
		Our Garden Staff (all in our Blue Kahn Park T-shirts) are a key link to the community since it is their presence in the Park that is seen by neighbors, businesses, and pedestrians passing through the park.
	kahnpark.tripod.com (626 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts Friday Review Louis Kahn, according to his film-making son
		Nathaniel Kahn, Louis Kahn's illegitimate son, born in 1962, might have opened his documentary film in the uncomfortable bowels of Penn Station.
		Louis Kahn's life, soul and architecture had long been suspended between the two.
		On March 17 1974 Louis Kahn, one of the world's great architects, suffered a heart attack and died in the men's room of one of the shittiest buildings in the US.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,1266620,00.html (1138 words)

	Honoring Louis Kahn's Legacy on the 100th Anniversary of His Birth - Almanac, Vol. 47, No. 22, 2/13/2001
		Kahn was born in 1901 on the Baltic island of Osel, Estonia and came to America in 1905.
		In 1966, Kahn was the first to hold the Cret Professorship of Architecture, created by a bequest from his own teacher.
		GSFA's legandary Dean G. Holmes Perkins hired Kahn in 1955 and in 1979 he oversaw the installation of the Kahn Collection and directed the organization and cataloguing of the numerous materials.
	www.upenn.edu /almanac/v47/n22/Kahn100.html (347 words)

	2blowhards.com: Salingaros on Kahn
		Christopher Alexander and I were talking about famous modernist architects, and Louis Kahn's name came up.
		This was Kahn's first grand project, a combination of lucky break and initiation trial, and he proved himself worthy of the modernist credo.
		The third Kahn was the champion of modernism that we know so well -- the Kahn of "what does a brick want to become?" It is de rigueur for young architects to refer to him casually as "Lou" so as to imply a nonexistent familiarity.
	www.2blowhards.com /archives/001222.html (3962 words)

	Louis Kahn's First Unitarian Church
		Kahn's concept sketch began with a question mark, chosen to represent the sanctuary, at the center of the building, surrounded by a circle to serve as an ambulatory representing the shades of belief possible in a Unitarian congregation.
		Kahn's reaction was to remind the congregation that the new section would be similar but not identical, since both he and the church had changed in the intervening years.
		Kahn said that he "felt the starkness of light, learning to be conscious of glare." So the windows are protected, set in deep masonry reveals.
	www.rochesterunitarian.org /Building_desc.html (1656 words)

	Kent Larson
		Larson’s work on buildings that were designed by Louis Kahn but never constructed; he has completed CAD models of them, based on the original sketches, correspondence about the projects, study of other Kahn buildings, and the like.
		Larson used photographs of the materials common to Kahn’s structures as well as photographs of the surroundings of the buildings to help create the images, but he also manipulated the lighting to provide a sense of verisimilitude that is startling.
		Kahn, having built little of note by the age of fifty, spends four months as Architect in Residence at the American Academy in Rome.
	architecture.mit.edu /~kll/www_compton/exhibit.html (1837 words)

	Louis Isadore Kahn And The Salk Institute
		Louis Kahn and The Salk Institute Standing alone against the endless blue sea, the Salk Institute by Louis I. Kahn is one of a kind.
		Louis Kahn used a combination of modern architecture with much simplicity to produce arguably his greatest feat as an architect.
		Louis Kahn's Salk Institute for Biological Studies on the Pacific coast near La Jolla aspires within its own spirit to an order achieved through clarity, definition, and consistency of application(Heyer 195).
	www.freeessays.cc /db/5/avk18.shtml (778 words)

	Louis Kahn's Yale Center For British Art Captures The AIA Twenty-Five Year Award For Architecture of Enduring Significance
		Louis Kahn's Yale Center For British Art Captures The AIA Twenty-Five Year Award For Architecture of Enduring Significance
		Kahn’s Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, Calif.; the Kimbell Art Museum, Ft. Worth, Tex.; the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.; and the Phillips Exeter Library, Exeter, NH have all been honored by the AIA with the Twenty-five year Award.
		Kahn emigrated to the U.S. from Estonia at the age of four.
	www.aia.org /release_120704_25yr (996 words)

	The Louis I. Kahn Collection
		The Louis I. Kahn Collection is on permanent loan to the University from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
		Louis I. Kahn (photo by Dr. Norman Fisher)
		The collection consists of 6,363 drawings executed by Kahn, developmental and working drawings from his office, 100 models, photographs, slides, and 150 linear feet of his personal and office files and correspondence.
	www.design.upenn.edu /archives/majorcollections/kahn.html (167 words)

	Abstract, Nexus 2002: Steven Fleming: Louis Kahn's Platonic Approach to Number and Geometry
		His research has involved a study trip to the Louis Kahn Collection in Philadelphia and an extensive study of Platonism as it pertains to architectural theory.
		On first appraisal, Gast's analysis would In his recently published book Louis I. Kahn: The Idea of Order (Birkhäuser, 1998), appear to confirm claims by various scholars that Kahn was a Platonist.
		This interpretation of number and geometry in Kahn's work may seem obscure, but it does provide an explanation of his intensions which is intrinsic to his own dualistic metaphysics.
	www.math.muni.cz /EMIS/journals/NNJ/conferences/N2002-Fleming.html (847 words)

	Louis Kahn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Louis Isadore Kahn ( February 20, 1901 â“ March 17, 1974) practised as an architect in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and taught architecture there and at Yale University.
		Louis Kahn's work infused International style with a fastidious, highly personal taste, a poetry of light.
		Kahn was born on the Estonian island of Saaremaa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis_Kahn (847 words)

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