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A Short Biography of Louis Kahn

Author Name:

Louis Kahn

Born As:

Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky

Other Names:

Louis Isadore Kahn

Born:

20 Feb 1901

Died:

17 Mar 1974




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Architect                          
Selected Works:

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut - 1951–1953, the first significant commission of Louis Kahn and his first masterpiece, replete with technical innovations. For example, he designed a hollow concrete tetrahedral space-frame that did away with the need for ductwork and reduced the floor-to-floor height by channeling air through the structure itself. 
Like many of Kahn's buildings, the Art Gallery makes subtle references to its context while overtly rejecting any historical style.

Richards Medical Research Laboratories, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,- 1957–1965, regarding which Kahn said, “No space you can devise can satisfy these requirements. I thought what they should have was a corner for thought, in a word, a studio instead of slices of space.”

Jonas Salk Institute, La Jolla, California,
- 1959–1965, was to be a campus composed of three main clusters: meeting and conference areas, living quarters, and laboratories. Only the laboratory cluster, consisting of two parallel blocks enclosing a water garden, was actually built. The two laboratory blocks frame an exquisite view of the Pacific Ocean, accentuated by a thin linear fountain that seems to reach for the horizon.

Phillips Exeter Academy Library, Exeter, New Hampshire, - 1965–1972, awarded the Twenty-Five year award by the American Institute of Architects.

Jatiyo Sangshad Bhaban - National Assembly Building in Dhaka, Bangladesh - 1962–1974, considered to be his masterpiece and one of the great monuments of International Modernism.

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, - 1967–1972, features repeated bays of cycloid-shaped barrel vaults with light slits along the apex, which bathe the artwork on display in an ever-changing diffuse light.

Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, - 1969–1974.
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in India.                          
Kahn had three different families with three different women: his wife, Esther who he married in 1930, one daughter,
Anne Tyng, who began her working collaboration and personal relationship with Kahn in 1945, one daughter and Harriet Pattison, one son Nathaniel.