Audiotapes and transcripts of lectures on Louis I. Kahn, 1974-1978.

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Audiotapes and transcripts of lectures on Louis I. Kahn, 1974-1978.

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This collection comprises audiotapes and transcripts. The Robert Stern Panel at the Louis Kahn Lecture Series at the Drawing Center, held on September 6, 1978, included speakers Robert Stern, James Jarrett, Thomas Vreeland, Jr., and James Stewart Polshek. The Louis I. Kahn Memorial at Columbia University, held on March 27, 1974, included speakers James Stewart Polshek, Romaldo Giurgola, Carlos Vallhonrat, and Vincent Scully. This collection also includes a audiotape of a lecture given by Vincent Scully on Louis I. Kahn at the Drawing Center, held on September 7, 1978.

Audiotapes 3 cassettes.Transcripts 2 folders.

University of Pennsylvania, Architectural Archives

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Polshek, James Stewart.

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Jarrett, James.

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Vallhonrat, Carlos.

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Stern, Robert A. M.

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Robert A.M. Stern Architects, LLP, is a 220-person firm of architects, interior designers, and supporting staff. It was founded in 1977. The firm has established an international reputation as a leading design firm with wide experience in residential, commercial, and institutional work. The firm has earned international recognition, numerous awards and citations for design excellence, including National Honor Awards of the American Institute of Architects. Robert A. M. S...

O'Keefe, Suzanne

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Giurgola, Romaldo

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Scully, Vincent, Jr., 1920-

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Vreeland, Thomas R. (American contemporary architect)

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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...