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Louis Kahn
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Louis Kahn
“What does the Building want to be?”
–Kahn
Richards Medical Research Building at Penn (1957-60)
Richards Medical Research (U Penn) 1957
Campanili in village of San Gimigano, Italy
Construction
exterior, structural detail
plan
Office module
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla (1959-65)
Salk Institute La Jolla, CA 1959
Barnet Newman
Barnet Newman
plan
Library, Philips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH, 1968-72
the largest endowment of any secondary school in the United States $639 million.
Exeter Academy Library, Exeter, NH 1968
Interior, stair
Interior, carol
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (1966-72)
Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth, TX 1966
Section (built from the inside out)
National Assembly Building
Dhaka, Bangladesh1962
Dhaka, City map
Site drawing
A man-made moat separates the National Assembly block from the other buildings in the complex
plan, main building
Prayer hall