Louis I[sidore] Kahn

Louis I[sidore] Kahn
Louis Israel Isidore Kahn

* February 20, 1901 Osel
† March 17, 1974 New York City

American architect.

• 
  The Yale Center for British Art
  1969-77
  New Haven, United States of America
  
• Family Planning and Maternal Health Center
  1970-75
  Katmandu, Nepal
  
• Wolfson Center for Mechanical and Transportation Engineering
  1968-75 [project]
  Tel Aviv, Israel
  
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt Monument
  1973-74 [project]
  New York City, United States of America
  
• Pocona Art Center
  1972-74 [project]
  White Haven, United States of America
  
• 
  Congress building
  1968-74 [project]
  Florence, Italy
  
• Hurva Synagogue
  1967-74 [project]
  Jerusalem (Palestine part), Palestine
  
• 
  Ahmedabad Institute of Management
  1962-74
  Ahmedabad, India
  
• Steven Korman House
  1971-73
  Fort Washington, United States of America
  
• Inner Harbor
  1969-73 [project]
  Baltimore, United States of America
  
• 
  Kansas City Office Building
  1966-73 [project]
  Kansas City, United States of America
  
• 
  Fine Arts Center, School and Performing Arts Theater
  1966-73
  Fort Wayne, United States of America
  
• 
  Banglanagar
  1962-73
  Dhaka, Bangladesh
  
• 
  Library and Dining Hall of Phillips Exeter Academy
  1967-72
  Exeter, United States of America
  
• 
  Kimbell Art Museum
  1967-72
  Fort Worth, United States of America
  
• 
  Temple Beth-El Synagogue
  1966-72
  Chappaqua, United States of America
  
• 
  Stern Residence
  1966-70 [project]
  Washington D.C., United States of America
  
• Olivetti-Underwood Factory
  1966-70
  Harrisburg, United States of America
  
• 
  Mikveh Israel Synagogue
  1961-70 [project]
  Philadelphia, United States of America
  
• 
  Memorial to the Six Million Jewish Martyrs
  1967-69 [project]
  New York City, United States of America
  
• 
  Dominican Sister's Convent
  1965-68 [project]
  Media, United States of America
  
• Philadelphia College of Art
  1964-67 [project]
  Philadelphia, United States of America
  
• 
  Interama Community B
  1964-67 [project]
  
• 
  Norman Fisher house
  1960-67
  Hatboro, United States of America
  
• 
  First Unitarian Church
  1959-67
  Rochester, United States of America
  
• Priorei Saint Andrew
  1966 [project]
  Valyermo, United States of America
  
• Islamabad - Capital of Pakistan
  1965 [project]
  Islamabad, Pakistan
  
• 
  Eleanor Donnelly Erdman Hall - Bryn Mawr College
  1960-65
  Bryn Mawr, United States of America
  
• 
  Jonas Salk Institute Laboratory
  1959-65
  San Diego, United States of America
  
• Fine Arts Center
  1961-64 [project]
  Fort Wayne, United States of America
  
• 
  A. N. Richards Medical Research Building
  1957-64
  Philadelphia, United States of America
  
• Mesquita a Dhaka
  1962
  Dhaka, Bangladesh
  
• 
  United States Consulate Buildings
  1959-62 [project]
  Luanda, Angola
  
• »Tribune Review« Press Building
  1958-62
  Greensburg, United States of America
  
• 
  Mill Creek Housing Project
  1952-53, 1959-62
  Philadelphia, United States of America
  
• Wohnung für eine alleinstehende Person
  1959-61
  Philadelphia, United States of America
  
• Dr. Bernard Shapiro House
  1959-61
  Narberth, United States of America
  
• Haus für Familie Fred E. Clever
  1957-61
  Cherry Hill, United States of America
  
• Esherick House
  1960
  Philadelphia, United States of America
  
• 
  Robert H. Fleisher House
  1959 [project]
  Elkins Park, United States of America
  
• M. Morton Goldenberg Residence
  1959 [project]
  Rydal, United States of America
  
• Umbau und Erweiterung des Haus von Irving L. und Dorothy E. Shaw
  1956-59
  Philadelphia, United States of America
  
• 
  Jewish Community Center
  1954-59 [partly realized]
  Trenton, United States of America
  
• Lawrence Morris House
  1958 [project]
  Mount Kisco, United States of America
  
• Universal Atlas Cement Company Building
  1957 [project]
  New York City, United States of America
  
• Research Institute for Advanced Science (RIAS)
  1955-57 [project]
  Fort Mead, United States of America
  
• Torre de la ciutat
  1952-57
  
• Washington University Library
  1956 [project]
  St. Louis, United States of America
  
• Dr. Francis Adler House
  1954-55 [project]
  Philadelphia, United States of America
  
• Adath Jeshuran Synagogue
  1954 [project]
  Elkins Park, United States of America
  

year	description	section	level
1971	Gold Medal, American Institute of Architects (AIA)
1972	Gold medal, Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)

• 
  Louis I. Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture: Condensed
  L. I. Kahn, D. B. Brownlee, V. Scully Jr., D. G. De Long, G. Mudford
  Universe Publications; 1997
  
• Villages in the Sun
  Mediterranean Community Architecture
  L. I. Kahn, M. Goldfinger
  Rizzoli; 1993
  
• 
  The Yale Center for British Art
  A Living Tribute to Louis Kahn
  L. I. Kahn, D. Finn, D. Robinson
  Yale University Press; 1997
  
• 
  Geometry in Architecture
  Texas Buildings Yesterday and Today
  L. I. Kahn, C. Heimsath, L. Hardaway, M. Heimsath
  University of Texas Press; 2002
  
• 
  Louis I. Kahn
  Conversations With Students
  L. I. Kahn
  Princeton Architectural Press; 1998
  
• 
  Die Ordnung der Ideen
  L. I. Kahn, K.-P. Gast
  Birkhäuser Verlag; 2001
  
• Louis I. Kahn
  L. I. Kahn, R. Giurgola, J. Mehta
  Birkhäuser Verlag; 1992
  
• Die Architektur und die Stille
  Gespräche und Feststellungen
  L. I. Kahn, A. Latour
  Birkhäuser Verlag; 1998
  
• 
  Louis I. Kahn
  Complete Work 1935-74
  L. I. Kahn, H. Ronner, S. Jhaveri
  Birkhäuser Verlag; 1987
  
• 
  Louis Kahn to Anne Tyng
  The Rome Letters 1953-1954
  L. I. Kahn, A. G. Tyng
  Rizzoli; 1997
  
• Louis I. Kahn
  Light and Space | Licht und Raum
  L. I. Kahn, U. Büttiker
  Birkhäuser Verlag; 1993
  
• 
  Louis Kahn
  Essential Texts
  L. I. Kahn, R. C. Twombly
  W. W. Norton & Company; 2003
  
• La lumière selon Kahn | Kahn on light
  in: L'architecture d'aujourd'hui, 1991,274
  L. I. Kahn, C. Devillers
  page 150–152
  
• 1973: Brooklyn, New York
  in: Perspecta, 1982,19
  L. I. Kahn
  page 88–100
  

• Louis I. Kahn
  Light and Space | Licht und Raum
  L. I. Kahn, U. Büttiker
  Birkhäuser Verlag; 1993
  
• 
  Louis I. Kahn
  K.-P. Gast
  Birkhäuser Verlag; 1999
  
• 
  Louis I. Kahn
  The Idea of Order
  K.-P. Gast
  Birkhäuser Verlag; 1998
  
• Louis I. Kahn
  L. I. Kahn, R. Giurgola, J. Mehta
  Birkhäuser Verlag; 1992
  
• 
  Louis I. Kahn
  Licht und Raum
  U. Büttiker
  Birkhäuser Verlag; 1993
  
• 
  Louis I. Kahn
  Complete Work 1935-74
  L. I. Kahn, H. Ronner, S. Jhaveri
  Birkhäuser Verlag; 1987
  
• 
  Louis I. Kahn
  Die Ordnung der Ideen
  K.-P. Gast, A. G. Tyng, H. H. Thies
  Birkhäuser Verlag; 1998
  
• Louis I. Kahn
  Light and Space
  U. Büttiker
  Watson-Guptill Publications; 1994
  
• Louis I Kahn
  1992
  
• 
  Louis Kahn
  Essential Texts
  L. I. Kahn, R. C. Twombly
  W. W. Norton & Company; 2003
  
• Louis I. Kahn
  In the Realm of Architecture
  D. B. Brownlee, D. G. De Long
  Rizzoli
  - Ausstellung des Museum of Contempory Art Los Angeles
  
• Louis I. Kahn
  R. Giurgola
  Artemis - Verlag für Architektur
  
• Le Corbusier e Louis Kahn in India e Bangladesh
  gli edifici e la città
  L. Degli Uberti
  F. lli Palombi; 1997
  
• Louis I. Kahn
  R. Giurgola, J. Mehta
  Artemis - Verlag für Architektur; 1975
  
• Architekten - Louis Kahn.
  IRB Verlag; 2005
  - tagesaktuell
  
• Louis I. Kahn
  Westview Press; 1976
  
• Conversations With Architects
  Philip Johnson, Kevin Roche, Paul Rudolph, Bertrand Goldberg, Morris Lapidus, Louis Kahn, Charles Moore, Robert Venturi
  Holt Rinehart & Winston; 1975
  
• 
  Louis Kahn to Anne Tyng
  The Rome Letters 1953-1954
  L. I. Kahn, A. G. Tyng
  Rizzoli; 1997
  
• Louis I. Kahn
  Complete Work, 1935-1974
  A. Vasella, H. Ronner, S. Jhaveri
  Birkhäuser Verlag; 1989
  
• 
  Louis I. Kahn
  Unbuilt Masterworks
  V. Scully Jr., K. Larson, W. J. Mitchell
  Monacelli Press; 2000
  
• The Architecture of Corbusier and Kahn in the East
  A Philosophical Inquiry
  A. Banerji
  Edwin Mellen Press; 2001
  
• 
  Louis I. Kahn: The Idea of Order
  K.-P. Gast, A. G. Tyng, H. H. Thies
  Birkhäuser Verlag; 2001
  
• 18 years with architect Louis I. Kahn
  A. E. Komendant
  Aloray; 1975
  
• 
  Louis I. Kahn
  Complete Works
  K.-P. Gast
  DVA; 2001
  
• Louis I. Kahn
  Works and Projects
  R. Giurgola
  GG Editorial Gustavo Gili; 1999
  
• 
  Louis I. Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture: Condensed
  L. I. Kahn, D. B. Brownlee, V. Scully Jr., D. G. De Long, G. Mudford
  Universe Publications; 1997
  
• 
  Louis I. Kahn
  Conversations With Students
  L. I. Kahn
  Princeton Architectural Press; 1998
  
• 
  Between Silence and Light
  Spirit in the Architecture of Louis I. Kahn
  J. Lobell
  Random House; 2000
  
• 
  Louis I. Kahn
  In the Realm of Architecture
  D. B. Brownlee, D. G. De Long, E. A. T. Smith
  Rizzoli; 1991
  
• 
  Louis Kahn
  J. Rykwert, R. Schezen
  Harry N. Abrams; 2001
  
• 
  Readings from the Architecture of Louis I. Kahn
  J. Kieffer
  Xlibris Corporation; 2001
  
• Paul Rudolph and Louis Kahn
  A Bibliography
  C. R. Smith
  Vance Bibliographies, Scarecrow Press; 1987
  
• Parallel aims
  in: The Architects' Journal, 9/1992
  S. Greenberg
  page 54–55
  
• Kahn's realm
  in: Building Design, 1991,1056
  A. Dannatt
  page 18–19
  - exhibition review
  
• Kahn reconsidered
  in: Architectural Record, 10/1991
  R. Kimball
  page 94–103,143
  - exhibition review
  
• Louis I. Kahn
  in: L'architecture d'aujourd'hui, 1992,279
  C. Maniaque, D. Naegele
  page 86–97
  
• L.I. Kahn in rassegna: A dieci anni dalla morte
  in: Casabella, 1985,517
  J. Gubler
  page 42–43
  
• Re-examining the house
  in: The Architects' Journal, 9/1992
  S. Greenberg
  page 22–25
  
• Modern architects reconsidered: Biblical imagery in the work of Louis I. Kahn. From Noah's Ark to the Temple of Solomon
  in: A+U, 5/1985,176
  A. C. Gorlin
  page 83–92
  
• Apparent heir
  in: The Architects' Journal, 7/1992
  J. I. Dunnett
  page 40–41
  
• The last of the moderns: Louis I. Kahn: In the realm of architecture, Philadelphia Museum of Art, until 5 January 1992
  in: Blueprint, 1992,83
  R. W. Gastil
  page 42
  - exhibition review
  
• Building ideas
  in: The Architects' Journal, 9/1992
  C. S. Wilson
  page 20–21
  
• Kahn auf Reisen: Die grosse Louis-Kahn-Werkschau startet im Centre Pompidou
  in: Bauwelt, 14/1992
  C. Gunßer
  page 761
  - exhibition review
  
• Design: Louis I. Kahn: the man who didn't like windows
  in: Art News, 2/1992
  P. Lemos
  page 55–56
  - exhibition review
  
• Kahn
  in: The Architects' Journal, 9/1992
  page 18–19
  
• Licht und Ordnung, über die Lichtenwürfe Frank Lloyd Wrights und Louis Kahn
  in: Der Architekt, 9/1990
  G. Auer
  page 390–394
  
• Kahn and the civic realm
  in: Progressive Architecture, 11/1992
  R. L. Geddes
  page 94–95
  
• Louis I. Kahn in the Soviet Union
  in: Ad - Architectural Digest, 5/1986
  V. Scully Jr.
  page 62–62,66,71
  
• The inquiry into form of architecture in Kahn's thinking
  in: Nihon Kenchiku Gakkai keikakukei ronbun hokoku shu | Journal of architecture, planning and environmental engineering (Transactions of AIJ), 1/1989,395
  T. Maeda
  page 72–79
  
• Persoonlijke stijl: het handschrift van de architect | Personal style: the architect's handwriting
  in: Forum voor architectuur en daarmee verbonden kunsten, 2/1984-1985
  B. van Aalderen, N. van Vugt
  page 56–65
  
• Louis Kahn grande contemporaneo
  in: Casabella, 1991,584
  C. Devillers
  page 40–45,61-62
  - exhibition review
  
• Kahn: architecture and consciousness
  in: Texas architect, 3/1990
  M. Cekic
  page 58–59
  
• Louis I. Kahn bibliography
  in: Architecture series: bibliography, 1980,A-190
  G. W. Close
  page 1–39
  
• The legacy of Louis Kahn
  in: Progressive Architecture, 12/1984
  D. D. Boles
  page 53–55
  
• Masters of light: Louis Kahn
  in: Architecture: the AIA journal, 11/1979
  M. Meyers
  page 60–62
  
• Timeless but of its time
  in: The Architectural Review, 1984,1050
  page 46–47
  
• Louis Kahn: sorted recollections and lapses in familiarities
  in: L. A. architect, 1/1981
  W. S. Huff
  page 1–38
  
• Light and silence: the religious architecture of Louis Kahn
  in: Architectural Association (Great Britain) - AAQ, 1/1981
  R. Coombs
  page 26–36
  
• New light on Kahn: rediscovering the poet of modern architecture
  in: House & Garden, 8/1991
  M. Filler
  page 90–95,140
  
• Theory: Kahn, Heidegger and the language of architecture
  in: Oppositions, 1979,18
  C. Norberg-Schulz
  page 28–47
  
• Le musée maison de lumière
  in: Architecture intérieure créé, 1991,246
  P. Barrière
  page 88–91
  
• Louis Kahn and the French connection
  in: Oppositions, 1980,22
  K. Frampton
  page 20–53
  
• Notes from Volume Zero: Louis Kahn and the language of God
  in: Perspecta, 1983,20
  J. Burton
  page 69–90
  
• Giurgola on Kahn
  in: Architecture: the AIA journal, 9/1982
  R. Giurgola
  page 26–35
  
• Form en design: overzichtstentoonstelling van Louis Kahn in Parijs
  in: Architect, 4/1992
  J. van Eldonk
  page 35–37
  - exhibition review
  
• Salk Institute controversy
  in: The Architectural Review, 1992,1142
  K. Frampton
  page 10
  - obituary
  
• The inquiry into order of architecture in Kahn's thinking
  in: Nihon Kenchiku Gakkai keikakukei ronbun hokoku shu | Journal of architecture, planning and environmental engineering (Transactions of AIJ), 12/1988,394
  T. Maeda
  page 52–61
  
• Kahn e Kahn | Kahn and Kahn
  in: abitare, 1992,305
  page 250–251
  - exhibition review
  
• Domus itinerario n.66: Kahn e Filadelfia
  in: Domus, 1991,725
  
• The inquiry into existence in architecture in Kahn's thinking
  in: Nihon Kenchiku Gakkai keikakukei ronbun hokoku shu | Journal of architecture, planning and environmental engineering (Transactions of AIJ), 6/1989,400
  T. Maeda
  page 75–83
  
• The inquiry into structure and light in Louis I Kahn's thinking
  in: Nihon Kenchiku Gakkai keikakukei ronbun hokoku shu | Journal of architecture, planning and environmental engineering (Transactions of AIJ), 10/1988,392
  T. Maeda
  page 147–155
  
• Kahn and Yale
  in: Journal of Architectural Education - JAE, 3/1982
  W. S. Huff
  page 22–31
  
• Louis Kahn en de nulgraad van de architectuur
  in: Archis, 4/1992
  H. van Bergelijk
  page 12–18
  - exhibition review
  
• Louis I. Khan: le monde de l'architecte
  in: Techniques & Architecture, 1992,400
  page 8–10
  - exhibition review
  
• What does the building want to be?
  in: Art in America, 7/1992
  B. Adams
  page 66–75,125
  - exhibition review
  
• Louis I. Kahn architetto
  in: Domus, 1992,735
  W. Wang
  page 74–79,XXII
  - exhibition review
  
• Louis Kahn: mind, meaning, mannerism
  in: Architecture New Jersey, 4/1992
  A. Chimacoff
  page 27–28
  - exhibition review
  
• The meaning of the court in Kahn's thinking
  in: Nihon Kenchiku Gakkai keikakukei ronbun hokoku shu | Journal of architecture, planning and environmental engineering (Transactions of AIJ), 7/1989,401
  T. Maeda
  page 79–87
  
• Louis Kahn in the Midwest
  in: Inland architect, 3/1989
  C. Yetken
  page 32–32,36,75-78
  - exhibition review
  
• Kahn and Venturi, An architecture of being-in-context
  in: Artforum, 6/1978
  J. Lobell
  page 46–52
  
• Kahn y el dilema de la modernidad | Kahn and the dilemma of modernity
  in: Arquitectura: revista del Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid, 1992,291
  M. Mostafavi
  page 98–103
  - exhibition review
  
• L'estetica della pianta: Louis Kahn | The aesthetic of the plan: Louis Kahn
  in: Space & Society | Spazio e societa, 1988,44
  M. Brawne
  page 24–27
  
• Louis I. Kahn 1901/1974
  in: Rassegna, 1985,21
  V. Gregotti, F. Fusaro, K. Frampton, J. Burton, W. S. Huff, M. Meyers, M. Sabini, J. Salk, D. Wisdom
  page 4–88
  
• Louis I. Kahn: conception and meaning
  in: A+U: extra edition, 11/1983
  M. Graves, C. Pelli, R. Giurgola, N. Gianopoulos, K. Kawasaki, M. Meyers, G. W. Moye, T. Nakamura, G. H. Perkins, D. Polk, N. Welliver, H. Wilcotts, D. Wisdom
  page 3–240
  
• Marvelous fountainheads: Louis I. Kahn: travel drawings
  in: Lotus International: L'occhio dell'architetto | The Eye of the Architect, 1991,68
  V. Scully Jr.
  page 48–63
  
• Gallery: the paintings and sketches of Louis I. Kahn
  in: Progressive Architecture, 3/1992
  page 110–111
  
• Kahn and Japan: the Eastern influence
  in: Progressive Architecture, 12/1984
  H. Watanabe
  page 78–81
  
• Louis Kahn and the alchemist's art: constituting the temple of silence
  in: Cartouche, 1992
  L. Burton
  page 13–15
  
• Vom Backstein, der zum Bogen werden wollte: Louis I Kahns gemauerte Werke | On the brick that wanted to become an arch: Louis I. Kahn's masonry structures
  in: Daidalos, 1992,43
  G. Auer
  page 68–75
  
• The travel sketches of Louis Kahn
  in: Architecture: the AIA journal, 5/1978
  M. E. Osman
  page 46–55
  
• Soul searching: In the realm of architecture
  in: The Architects' Journal, 12/1992
  L. Gallery
  page 59–60
  - exhibition review
  
• Muzharul Islam, Kahn and architecture in Bangladesh
  in: Mimar, 1989,31
  K. K. Ashraf
  page 55–63
  
• I musei di Louis I. Kahn
  in: Industria delle costruzioni, 1992,243
  R. Gamba
  page 61–63
  - exhibition review
  
• revisioning Kahn
  in: A+U, 1/1993,268
  L. Woods
  page 3–8
  - exhibition review
  
• Western architecture's last passage to India
  in: Architecture + design, 3/1989
  A. Banerji
  page 54–57
  
• Louis Kahn revisited in Philadelphia
  in: Architecture: the AIA journal, 12/1991
  E. Gunts, K. Salmon
  page 21–24
  
• Da Guadet a Kahn: il tema della stanza
  in: Casabella, 1986,520-521
  J. Lucan
  page 72–75
  
• Experience of the evolving process of architecture: Observations on the »Louis I. Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture« exhibition
  in: Space design, 12/1992,339
  Y. Kumakura
  page 94
  - exhibition review
  
• A new mode or an old manner? Decision for Louis Kahn
  in: A+U, 8/1977,81
  R. D. McBride
  page 77–90
  

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