Louis Kahn is one of the 20th century’s most well-known architects. His distinctive modernist style combined with the classic look of centuries-old monuments to create hugely influential architecture ...

Essays. Chronology / William Whitaker -- Monument? Forum? Fair? Louis Kahn, Edmund Bacon, and Philadelphia / Stanislaus von Moos -- Between grid and pathway : the houses of Louis Kahn / Jochen ...

There are only nine private homes built according to plan by late architect Louis Kahn (1901 - 1974) —a surprisingly small number when considering the length and breadth of the architect's career.

Inviting students to imagine the future Louis Kahn Centre has produced work that explores light, landscape and material — without freezing Kahn’s legacy in time. Designing a centre dedicated to a ...

The architect who designed some of the 20th century’s great buildings kept a notebook with intimate glimpses into his creative vision. Now it’s his daughter’s final goodbye. By Sam Lubell After having ...

A striking example of the use of the creative homospatial process — conceiving two or more discrete entities occupying the same space, a conception leading to the articulation of new identities ...

Well-known architects are easy to admire or dismiss from afar, but up close, oddly humanizing habits often come to light. However, while we all have our quirks, most people's humanizing habits don't ...

Fort Worth's iconic art museum was instantly hailed as one of the most important buildings of the 20th century, notably for its vaulted ceilings, and slim slots in the ceilings and walls that regulate ...

When the architect Louis I. Kahn collapsed and died in the men’s room of Penn Station in 1974, he left behind many things. There were buildings of monumental importance and vision, like the Salk ...

On the occasion of an exhibition held at Nederlands Architektuurinstituut, Rotterdam, September 8, 2012 - January 6, 2013; Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, March 9 - August 25, 2013; National ...