Papers related to Temple Beth-El, Chappaqua, NY, Louis I. Kahn, Architect, 1966-1970.

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Papers related to Temple Beth-El, Chappaqua, NY, Louis I. Kahn, Architect, 1966-1970.

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The collection comprises Feldman's papers related to the Building Committee during the period from 1966 to 1970. Materials in the collection reflect the congregation's role as client in the development of the architectural design. The collection contains a small amount of correspondence with Kahn and his office. The collection contains no architectural drawings. These materials were stored together with Louis I. Kahn's own office files in the Architectural Archives from 1995 to 2004. It is possible that these materials have been cited in scholarly writing as Louis I. Kahn Collection, LIK Box 9.

3 folders.

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...

Feldman, Leonard, 1927-

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Temple Beth-El, (Chappaqua, NY)

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