Louis I. Kahn sketches for the Kimbell Art Museum, 1967-1969.

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Louis I. Kahn sketches for the Kimbell Art Museum, 1967-1969.

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This collection comprises design and presentation drawings (34 originals and 6 rendered prints) for the Kimbell Art Museum, Louis I. Kahn, 1901-74, architect. At least twelve drawings in the collection have been identified as sketches by Kahn (many are signed and dated 1967 and one is dated 1969). These drawings include exterior and interior perspectives, plans, and section studies and were likely used to present the evolving design to the Kimbell Art Foundation in 1967. The drawings are rendered in either charcoal and pencil or color pastel on yellow tracing paper or diazotype print. These drawings are exceptional examples of Kahn's later graphic technique and are perhaps among his best architectural drawings. A significant number of original drawings have been identified as sketches by Marshall D. Meyers, who was project architect for the Kimbell. The bulk of drawings by Meyers are design studies focusing on the section and the "natural light fixture."

Architectural drawings 40 items.

University of Pennsylvania, Architectural Archives

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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...

Meyers, Marshall D. (Marshall David), 1931-2001.

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Marshall D. Meyers was born in Buffalo and raised in Niagara Falls, NY. He was trained as an industrial designer at the Pratt Institute (graduated 1953) before studying architecture at Yale University, (M. Arch. 1957). Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974) invited Meyers to join his office in 1957, where he remained until 1965. He worked briefly for B. Frank Schlesinger in 1965, and in 1966-1967 he was the project architect for the United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan for Geddes, Breche...

Kimbell Art Museum.

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Art museum; Fort Worth, Tex. From the description of Kimbell Art Museum records, 1961-1983. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80335388 ...