Photographic portraits of Louis I. Kahn and students at the University of Pennsylvania, 1973.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Photographic portraits of Louis I. Kahn and students at the University of Pennsylvania, 1973.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/245118299

This collection comprises 35 negatives (with contact prints) documenting three meetings of Kahn's Master's Studio at the University of Pennsylvania during the Fall semester of 1973. The bulk of these photographs were taken by James F. Williamson (a member of the Studio).

51 photoprints.

University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7134238

University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

Related Entities

There are 2 Entities related to this resource.

Williamson, James F.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wq17h4 (person)

Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w616565t (person)

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...