The Phillips Exeter Academy Library in Exeter, New Hampshire, U.S., with 160,000 volumes on nine levels and a shelf capacity of 250,000 volumes, is the larg ...
Architecture historian Caroline Maniaque and photographer Cemal Emden revisit Louis Kahn's architecture in a new compendium of his most significant works.
Wow, some incredible captures of buildings designed by the great architect Louis Kahn, photographed by Naquib Hossain. In fact Naquib has a small website dedicated to Louis Kahn which he has coined a “Visual Archive”, quite fitting for this particular series. If you’ve not seen it before I’d recommend having a browse here, it’s basically a homage to Louis Kahn and his works through a collection of photographs. Interestingly enough ...
Image 5 of 46 from gallery of Louis Kahn's Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad Photographed by Laurian Ghinitoiu. Photograph by Laurian Ghinitoiu
A photographic cornucopia of Kahn’s buildings, this highly visual publications takes its reader on a striking tour of his architectural aesthetic
In this Midjourney exploration I wanted to use AI to create a space that had ethereal, calm, and sacred sensibilities. This exploration was inspired by various Louis Kahn projects where he brings this everlasting feel of the spiritual and sacred.
Wow, some incredible captures of buildings designed by the great architect Louis Kahn, photographed by Naquib Hossain. In fact Naquib has a small website dedicated to Louis Kahn which he has coined a “Visual Archive”, quite fitting for this particular series. If you’ve not seen it before I’d recommend having a browse here, it’s basically a homage to Louis Kahn and his works through a collection of photographs. Interestingly enough ...
In 1960, Jonas Salk tasked Louis I. Kahn with designing the Salk Institute, a research facility that he envisioned would positively impact humanity
Renowned for the monolithic masonry of buildings from California to Bangladesh, Kahn turned his obsessions – the natural sciences and primary geometries – into wondrous works of architecture
Perched atop a ridge in Sonoma County, connected pavilions blur the boundary between inside and out.
Known for his monumental brick and concrete structures, architect Louis Kahn (February 20 1901 – March 17, 1974) began his life in poverty. His family settled in Philadelphia after immigrating from Estonia and could not afford to buy him drawing materials, “so he improvised and sketched with burnt twigs and matches,” notes a Kimbell Art … Continue reading "The Austere Beauty of Louis Kahn’s 1963 Salk Institute for Biological Research, “Arguably the Defining Work of the Greatest American Architect”"
Image 21 of 46 from gallery of Louis Kahn's Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad Photographed by Laurian Ghinitoiu. Photograph by Laurian Ghinitoiu
Louis Kahn's Salk Institute in La Jolla, California
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Renowned for the monolithic masonry of buildings from California to Bangladesh, Kahn turned his obsessions – the natural sciences and primary geometries – into wondrous works of architecture
We check in on the status of nine houses designed by Louis Kahn in the Philadelphia area.
A few months before his death, Louis I. Kahn completed Steven and Toby Korman House commission to design a six-bedroom house in Pennsylvania
Lucky chances brought together an international couple and a Louis Kahn-designed house.
In 1959, Jonas Salk, the man who had discovered the vaccine for polio, approached acclaimed architect Louis I. Kahn with plans for a groundbreaking new project.
Kahn’s residential work is few and far between, and they’re all found scattered throughout the Philly region.
The First Unitarian Church of Rochester, designed in 1959 and completed in 1962, is a prime example of Louis Kahn's design sensibilities.
It was recognized for its recent renovations
An architect celebrated for his breathtaking studies of light and materiality in the creation of memorable architecture, Louis Kahn did not fail to...
Reflect on the great event in architecture when the walls parted and columns became. It was an event so delightful and so thought wonderful that from it almost all our life in architecture stems. T…
Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974) was the architect of the library (1965-1972) at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire.
The Kimbell Art Museum ’s original building, designed by Louis I. Kahn and opened to the public for the first time in 1972 , has beco...
