Photographs of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Capital of Bangladesh, Louis I. Kahn, architect, 1986

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Photographs of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Capital of Bangladesh, Louis I. Kahn, architect, 1986

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The collection comprises 18 color slides of the National Assembly Complex at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh, by Louis I. Kahn, architect. These slides were taken by Mildred F. Schmertz in December 1985 and developed in January 1986 (the date printed on the slides).

Photographs 18 slides.

University of Pennsylvania, Architectural Archives

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Schmertz, Mildred F.

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Mildred Floyd Schmertz was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She earned the B.Arch. at Carnegie Institute of Technology (1947) and M.F.A. at Yale (1957). She worked for the firm of John Schurko 1947-1955. Schmertz was a writer and editor for Architectural Record for 33 years, serving as editor-in-chief from 1985 to 1990. She is the editor of several books and author of many articles. From the description of Photographs of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Capital of Bangladesh, Louis I. Kahn, arc...

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...