Kimbell Art Museum

museum of art

Louis I. Kahn (architecture)
August E. Komendant (structural engineering)

• United States of America

  Staat

  Texas

  state

  Fort Worth

  city

  3333 Camp Bowie Boulevard

  street

  http://www.kimbellart.org

  website / homepage

period	description
1967–1972	planning and construction period

• single storey
• inner court
• situation: park
• Lichtleitsystem
• museum of art
• skylight
• symmetry
• barrel roof

• 
  Louis I. Kahn: The Construction of the Kimbell Art Museum
  J. Rykwert, L. Bellinelli
  Skira Editore; 1999
  
• 
  Twentieth-Century Museums I
  Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, New National Gallery, Berlin; Louis I. Kahn, Kimbell Art Museum; Richard Meier, Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt
  J. S. Russell
  Phaidon Press Inc.; 1999
  
• Architektur USA
  Karl Krämer Verlag
  
• L. Kahn: Yale Art Gallery and Kimbell Art Museum
  A.D.A. Edita Tokyo Co Ltd
  
• 
  Website Kimbell Art Museum
  http://www.kimbellart.org
  
• article in: Louis I. Kahn
  R. Giurgola, J. Mehta
  Artemis - Verlag für Architektur; 1975
  page 94ff
  
• The immeasurable made measurable: building the Kimbell Art Museum
  in: Via, 1984,7
  A. T. Seymour
  page 76–85
  
• Kimbell plan draws prominent criticism
  in: Texas architect, 1/1990
  B. L. Koerble
  page 10
  
• Solicitous additions to an architectural icon [Kimbell Art Museum]
  in: Architectural Record, 12/1989
  page 59
  
• Texas masterpiece [Kimbell Museum, Fort Worth]
  in: The Architects' Journal, 9/1992
  P. Blundell-Jones
  page 42–49
  
• Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.A
  in: A+U: extra edition, 11/1983
  page 128–157
  
• The Kimbell expansion
  in: Oculus, 1/1989
  page 10
  
• Evaluation: The Kimbell Museum. Its standing, like that of its author, has steadily risen in the course of a decade
  in: Architecture: the AIA journal, 9/1982
  L. W. Speck
  page 36–43
  
• Giurgola's Kimbell addition draws fire
  in: Architecture: the AIA journal, 1/1990
  B. L. Koerble
  page 35–36
  
• Kimbell Museum debate
  in: Oculus, 7/1990
  S. Stephens
  page 5
  
• Fort Worth: Giurgola defers to Kahn at Kimbell
  in: Texas architect, 5/1989
  page 8
  
• Contro l'ampliamento del Kimbell Art Museum
  in: Casabella, 1990,569
  page 32
  
• Report: Kimbell Art Museum expansion abandoned
  in: A+U, 5/1990,236
  B. L. Koerble
  page 4–5
  
• Report: Kimbell Art Museum expansion
  in: A+U, 2/1990,233
  B. L. Koerble
  page 4–8
  
• More vaults for Kahn's Kimbell
  in: Progressive Architecture, 10/1989
  J. W. Barna
  page 27
  
• Controversy: the Kimbell Art Museum
  in: Oculus, 3/1989
  S. E. V. Gottlieb, S. A. Kahn
  page 5
  
• Kimbell plans ambushed in New York
  in: Progressive Architecture, 3/1990
  M. A. Branch
  page 23
  
• L.I. Kahn's architecture: the forms and sources in Yale art gallery and Kimbell Art Muzeum
  in: Nihon Kenchiku Gakkai keikakukei ronbun hokoku shu | Journal of architecture, planning and environmental engineering (Transactions of AIJ), 5/1991,423
  T. Ansano
  page 127–135
  
• Artistic achievements
  in: The Architects' Journal, 9/1992
  D. Hawkes
  page 50–53
  
• Commentary: adding to icons
  in: Progressive Architecture, 6/1990
  R. Miller
  page 124–125
  
• Museumserweiterung - Imitation als Architektursprache
  in: Baumeister, 11/1990
  page 44–47
  
• Forms of attachment: additions to modern American monuments
  in: Lotus International: Architettura della critica | Architecture of Criticism, 1992,72
  M. Sorkin
  page 90–95
  
• The very model of a Modern Art Museum
  in: Apollo, 1989,332
  H. Potterton
  page 264–266,290
  

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