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Dhaka: Day 4

designed by Louis I. Kahn. We began the tour at the bottom of the grand, expansive stair that extends, from photographs. Louis I. Kahn: Parliament Building (1962-84) However, its austerity, courtyards that offered respite from the traffic and noise of the streets. Louis I. Kahn: Suhrawardi, to nationhood. Adnan also discussed the choice of Louis Khan as architect, noting the earlier invitations, ! After lunch we toured the hospital designed by Kahn and within the master plan of the capital

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SAH Letter of Concern about the Proposed Demolition of IIM-A Dormitory Blocks

by architect Louis I. Kahn in collaboration with the important Indian architects B.V. Doshi, for its architecture. Kahn’s design for IIM-A is widely considered to be the crowning achievement of his illustrious career, and the totality of the design of IIM-A is critical to an understanding of Kahn, stress on excellence in higher education. For both of these reasons—the importance of Kahn’s IIM

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SAH_IIM-A_12 March 2021_final

by architect Louis I. Kahn in collaboration with the important Indian architects B.V. Doshi and Anant, renowned for its architecture. Kahn’s design for IIM-A is widely considered to be the crowning achievement, of Kahn’s work. The buildings are no less important to the oeuvre of work of the Indian architects, -independence stress on excellence in higher education. For both of these reasons -- the importance of Kahn

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Obituary: Patricia Cummings Loud (1930-2021)

Museum, Louis Kahn. Through the 1970s and 80s, as she raised her family, helped edit her husband's, , completing her dissertation on The Art Museums of Louis Kahn and receiving her Ph.D from Harvard, was the author of several seminal texts on the life and work of Louis Kahn and the design and construction of the Kimbell Art Museum, including her book "The Art Museums of Louis I. Kahn," which has been, related to Kahn's work. She gave literally hundreds of tours of the museum for special visitors

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August 2016 Newsletter

SAH Study Day: Louis Kahn in San Diego and La Jolla Save the date for the SAH Study Day "Louis Kahn in San Diego and La Jolla" on November 4, 2016. William Whitaker, curator, of their exhibition Louis Kahn. The Power of Architecture at the San Diego Museum of Art, the first retrospective of Louis Kahn’s work in two decades. Read More, Kahn and the design of his 1924 Literary Building at the University of Michigan

https://www.sah.org/about-sah/news/news-detail/2016/08/18/august-2016-newsletter

Kahn Tour: Deep Structure

Kahn Tour: Deep Structure, Venturi House (1959-1965). Quotes from Louis Kahn. “The Value and Aim in Sketching.” T-Square, by: J. Tobias While Kahn understood that “Drawing is a mode of representation,” he saw photography as a means of “imitating exactly:” “Photographs will serve you best of all, if that is your aim, succession (so unlike Kahn’s searching, mutable charcoals). True to form, the Vanna Venturi House, ? The architect and artist most likely believe in mediated individuality. Kahn no doubt believed

https://www.sah.org/publications/sah-blog/blog-detail/study-tour-blog/2008/09/11/kahn-tour-deep-structure

SAHARA Highlights: Brutalist Interiors

are two works by Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn. They are not brutalist per se, but because of their deft use, in the United States. Louis Kahn. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven Connecticut, United States, 1969–1974. Gallery interior. Photograph by Carrie Hunsaker. Kahn, like Le Corbusier, did not wave

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SAHARA Highlights: South Asia from 1800

(Jatiya Sangshad Bhabwan), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1962-1984, Louis I. Kahn, architect. Gretta Tritch Roman

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SAHARA Highlights: Water

Canyon, Arizona, United States, 1931-1936. Photograph by Thalia Allington-Wood, April, 2016. Louis I. Kahn, water tower, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmadabad, Gujarat, India, 1962-1974

https://www.sah.org/about-sah/news/news-detail/2019/08/05/sahara-highlights-water

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West is Now Available

by internationally renowned artists and architects, from the Kimbell Art Museum’s Louis Kahn Building

https://www.sah.org/about-sah/news/news-detail/2019/06/28/buildings-of-texas-east-north-central-panhandle-and-south-plains-and-west-is-now-available

Joseph Siry receives Wesleyan University Binswanger Award for Teaching Excellence

, 1890–1970: From Adler and Sullivan to Louis Kahn, is forthcoming from the Pennsylvania State

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Jeanne Gang to Receive City of Chicago's Fifth Star Award

, and is a Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur of France. In 2017 she was honored with the Louis I. Kahn

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September 2016 Newsletter

Newsletter Register Now for Louis Kahn in San Diego and La Jolla On Friday, November 4, 2016, SAH will host a study day in San Diego and La Jolla, California, exploring the work of Louis I. Kahn. The day will begin at The San Diego Museum of Art with a special, in-depth preview of the exhibition Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture, followed by a behind-the-scenes site visit, , this fellowship is offered for the Louis Kahn in San Diego and La Jolla Study Day and covers

https://www.sah.org/about-sah/news/news-detail/2016/09/15/september-2016-newsletter

April Newsletter 2014

on the other line was a resident of a Louis Kahn house and, most strikingly, a Louis Kahn house that has been largely forgotten. In 1942, Kahn, Oscar Storonov, and George Howe reconfigured the traditional row, as a board member for Gaia Children’s Theater and Friends of Burley. Louis Kahn's African-American Vernacular SAH Blog post by Kostis Kourelis When the telephone, July 11-12 and includes visits to the Maison de Verre, the Villa Savoye and the Maison Louis Carré

https://www.sah.org/about-sah/news/news-detail/2014/04/11/april-newsletter-2014

Claire Zimmerman Named Associate Editor of JSAH

) and Albert Kahn Inc.: Architecture, Labor, and Industry (MIT Press, forthcoming in 2024). Zimmerman, : An Architecture for Industrialization, 1917-1945 (MIT Press, 2023) with Jean-Louis Cohen and Christina

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SAHARA Highlights: Dormitories

is in the foreground of this view of the dormitories. Louis Kahn, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmadabad, India, 1962–74. Photograph by Peter Serenyi. Kahn’s IIM dormitories were scheduled for demolition due

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Obituary: Architect Marc Goldstein, FAIA

with us that Marc declared his favorite buildings were the Louis Kahn government buildings in Dhaka, of Architecture where he studied under Louis Kahn, Paul Rudolph and Vincent Scully. In his recommendation for the Fulbright scholarship Goldstein won, Kahn wrote, “Marc’s familiarity with the religion, and articulate practitioners.” Goldstein considered Kahn’s letter one of the most valuable things he owned

https://www.sah.org/about-sah/news/news-detail/2015/12/14/obituary-architect-marc-goldstein-faia

Obituary: Julia Moore Converse 1946-2020

the world. As Curator of the Louis I. Kahn Collection she was a member of the organizing team, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1991. She contributed to the exhibit catalogue “Louis I. Kahn

https://www.sah.org/about-sah/news/news-detail/2020/05/29/obituary-julia-moore-converse-1946-2020

The History of Architecture

and Louis Kahn, to Rem Koolhaas and Kazuyo Sejima. With over 500 illustrations and a comprehensive

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SAHARA Highlights: Public Bathrooms

, Dalat, Vietnam, 1938. View of public restrooms. Photograph by Mark Hinchman, 2011. Louis Kahn

https://www.sah.org/about-sah/news/news-detail/2024/03/13/sahara-highlights-public-bathrooms
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