Photographs of the Dr. and Mrs. Norman Fisher Residence, Louis I. Kahn Architect, ca. 1964-1967.

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Photographs of the Dr. and Mrs. Norman Fisher Residence, Louis I. Kahn Architect, ca. 1964-1967.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232664361

This collection comprises 71 color slides documenting the Dr. and Mrs. Norman Fisher House by architect Louis I. Kahn. The collection includes construction photographs, as-built photographs, and 17 images of Kahn at the building site and visiting the completed house.

Photographs 71 slides.

University of Pennsylvania, Architectural Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 7098996

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Fisher, Norman J., 1925-2007.

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Dr. Norman Fisher commissioned Louis I. Kahn to design his residence in Hatboro, Pennsylvania. The house was designed and built 1960-1967. From the description of Photographs of the Dr. and Mrs. Norman Fisher Residence, Louis I. Kahn Architect, ca. 1964-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 232664361 ...

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...