Photographs of Louis I. Kahn at the "World Design Conference 1960 in Tokyo," 1960.

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Photographs of Louis I. Kahn at the "World Design Conference 1960 in Tokyo," 1960.

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This collection comprises 4 black-and-white photographs of Louis I. Kahn and one black-and-white photograph of another man (Arne Korsmo?). The photos were taken while Kahn was visiting Japan for the "World Design Conference 1960 in Tokyo," May 11th-16th, Hiroshi Misawa, photographer.

Photographs 5 photoprints.

University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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Misawa, Hiroshi

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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...

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...