Louis I. Kahn project and office Records.

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Louis I. Kahn project and office Records.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79811693

Series II of Kahn's Architectural Records and Personal Papers contains correspondence and other records related to specific Kahn projects, financial records and general files from Kahn's office. Professional correspondence is found interfiled in the general files.

148 cu. ft.

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...