Louis Isadore Kahn collection 1951-1978 1962-1977

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Louis Isadore Kahn collection 1951-1978 1962-1977

The collection consists of publications on or by Louis Kahn and photographs of structures designed by Kahn.

8.5 linear feet

eng,

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Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974

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Louis I. Kahn was born in Estonia and raised in Philadelphia. He was trained in architecture in the Beaux-Arts tradition at the University of Pennsylvania under Paul Philippe Cret. As a mature architect, Kahn was distinguished from his contemporaries (in a period dominated by the International Style) by his unique personal philosophy of architecture and a style marked by a profound sense of history and pure geometry in design and the texture of materials in construction. His legacy is as much in...