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Louis Kahn's Modernism with William Whitaker

Louis Kahn's Modernism with William Whitaker, William Whitaker, curator of the Penn Architectural Archives, will give a presentation on his new co-authored book, The Houses of Louis Kahn (Yale, 2013), for the Philadelphia Chapter of SAH on Thursday, December 12, 2013, at 6 p.m., at the Penn Architectural Archives, 220 South 34th Street. Read More

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Louis Kahn's African-American Vernacular

Louis Kahn's African-American Vernacular, to learn that the caller 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, worked in Louis Kahn's archives as a student, and wanted to seize the moment that William Whitaker and Ben Marcus have set into motion with their spectacular new book, The Houses of Louis Kahn, and is now surrounded by Coatesville High School completed in 1968. Louis Kahn was a housing

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Study Day: Louis Kahn in San Diego and La Jolla

Study Day: Louis Kahn in San Diego and La Jolla, to attend SAH’s “Louis Kahn Study Day” on Friday, November 4. My aim was to think through some, Institute. Installation of Louis Kahn's travel postcards at SDMA exhibition ​Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture​. The exhibition Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture at SDMA comprises six, Louis Kahn, thanks to a typographical error, is acclaimed as “Luis Kahn” in my Bangladeshi passport, I, of Interior Courtyard, 1966. Letters exchanged between Luis Barragan and Louis Kahn. Plaza

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Save the Date for the 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", Save the date for the SAH Study Day "Louis Kahn in San Diego and La Jolla" on November 4, 2016, , will lead a special preview tour 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. After lunch, participants will get a behind-the-scenes tour of Kahn’s renowned Salk Institute for Biological, 13. Photo: Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, Louis Kahn, 1959–65 © The Architectural

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Louis I. Kahn Study Tour: Institutional Work

Louis I. Kahn Study Tour: Institutional Work, the tour we traveled to New Haven to view some of Kahn’s most famous institutional work. Carter, , with a quick trip to the archives of Sterling Memorial Library to view original drawings by Kahn and Paul, Gallery (with Douglass Orr, 1951-53) is considered by many to be Kahn’s earliest substantial commission. The Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) was the first of three art museums that Kahn would design, Swartwout. One of Kahn’s major innovations in the YUAG was the use

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Louis I. Kahn Study Tour: Contemporaries

Louis I. Kahn Study Tour: Contemporaries, by: Amber Wiley While on the Kahn tour we had the pleasure of visiting architectural works by persons associated with Kahn, either by virtue of collaboration, education, or simply overlapping periods of significant work in Philadelphia and its suburbs. We looked at the work of many of his contemporaries including Robert Venturi, I.M. Pei, Mitchell/Giurgola, Joel Levinson, and GBQC. The Cooper House (1961) by architecture firm GBQC was particularly impressive

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Statement on Proposed Demolition to IIM-A Dormitory Blocks

internationally significant historic core, designed by architect Louis I. Kahn in collaboration, for its architecture, and KahnÕs design for IIM-A is widely considered to be the crowning achievement, of KahnÕs work. For both of these reasons -- the importance of KahnÕs IIM-A dormitories in supporting

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Kahn Tour: Rowhouses and Estates

Kahn Tour: Rowhouses and Estates, is an accepted applicant to Jersey Homesteads (1936). Quotes from Louis Kahn. “The Value and Aim, , should arrest our attention. Kahn grew up in such Philadelphia row houses, moving seventeen times in two years (usually due to trouble paying rent). Kahn’s moving personal story, community. Perhaps this is because many of us (self included) speak from its upper end. Kahn may, opportunities for first wave modernists to test their ideas on a large scale. Many of Kahn’s later

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Kahn Tour: "The Value and Aim in Sketching"

Kahn Tour: "The Value and Aim in Sketching", by: J. Tobias In 1931 the young Louis Kahn published his thoughts on “The Value and Aim, the SAH Louis Kahn tour presented an opportunity to reflect upon these Values and Aims. In his article Kahn states, “The capacity to see comes from persistently analysing our reactions to what we, me to “see” Kahn better. Perhaps blog readers will see something new in Kahn, too, or have reactions of their own. Image: Jennifer Tobias. Center City, Philadelphia. near Kahn’s office. PSFS

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SAH Supports the Proposed Restoration of the Fort Wayne Civic Theatre (Arts United Center)

Kahn, Louis Isidore (Russian-American architect and city planner, 1901-1974). 1973, Image: 2017. Fine Arts Center, School, and Performing Arts Theater, Façade, Exterior. theaters (buildings). Image courtesy of Emma López-Bahut. https://sahara.artstor.org/asset/27010376 The SAH Heritage Conservation Committee has written a letter in support of efforts to rehabilitate and restore the Louis Kahn-designed Fort Wayne Civic Theatre (now the Arts United Center) in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Read

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Photos of Recent Kahn Study Tour Now Posted to SAH Blog

Photos of Recent Kahn Study Tour Now Posted to SAH Blog, SAH is pleased to announce updates to the SAH Study Tour blog, a place where Fellowship winners who participated in recent SAH Study Tours will post comments and photographs to document their experience on the tour. Visit recent updates from the Louis Kahn and Estates of Chicago's North Shore Study Tours

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Statement on Proposed Demolition of Most of the Dormitory Blocks of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A)

Louis Kahn Plaza at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. Photo © Wikimedia Commons / Perspectives - The Photography Club, IIM Ahmedabad The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) supports our colleagues from ICOMOS India, and joins with an international group of architectural historians, architects, preservationists, and others to express significant concerns regarding plans by the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) to demolish 14 of its 18 dormitory blocks

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SAH_Fort Wayne Theatre_10 June 2021

Historians (SAH) strongly supports efforts to rehabilitate and restore the Louis Kahn-designed Fort Wayne Civic Theatre (now the Arts United Center) in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Kahn is one of America’s, example of Kahn’s work. The Fort Wayne Civic Center was first envisioned by Kahn in 1961, while, consists of seven buildings). For twelve years, Kahn worked on this project. Its grand opening in September 1973 was the last that Kahn completed before his death on 17 March 1974. During the years

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Kahn Tour: Time and Materials

Kahn Tour: Time and Materials, Bath House (1954-1959). Rodin quote from Louis Kahn. “The Value and Aim in Sketching.” T-Square, by: J. Tobias In his oracular style, Kahn said that “material is spent light.” I think, ) plus fix (stasis). Did I learn that as a child, Kahn used this coal for drawing, for lack, no accident that Rodin is a recurring theme in Kahn’s biography and article. He writes, “The drawings, this. During the tour someone quoted…someone…who said that Kahn worked on a project until he got fired

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Kahn Tour: Narrow Views

Kahn Tour: Narrow Views, . Quotes from Louis Kahn. “The Value and Aim in Sketching.” T-Square Club Journal of Philadelphia. May, the object surrounds you so tightly you can’t represent it convincingly as anything? Kahn’s Richards, are exteriors (see the 1991 Kahn exhibition catalog and the documentary My Architect, for example, ’ well-behaved younger brother: there Kahn had a chance to work out all the kinks. Image

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Kahn Tour: Scumbling the Small Stuff

Kahn Tour: Scumbling the Small Stuff, El (1966-1972). All images . Quotes from Louis Kahn. “The Value and Aim in Sketching.” T, takes on Kahn’s Jesse Oser House (1940-1942). The first is “on the job” (With tour manager Kathy Sturm, . But Kahn knew that interpretive drawing must, in the end, respect the subject, . Site visits are an excellent way to study details. Archtiecture may start with a room, as Kahn, disappointed by the execution: surely Kahn wasn’t responsible! Based on their observations, I

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Kahn Tour: Illumination

Kahn Tour: Illumination, the light effects. An associate recalls that “…Kahn was having trouble with the design [and] Tyng was heard calling…that she ‘had something.” Kahn walked over and…’immediately saw that Anne’s design was it.” (See Carter Weisman. Louis I. Kahn: Beyond Time and Style, p. 93.) Entering the changing, , 1876). Image (bottom): Dulwich Picture Gallery (John Soane, 1814). See Louis Kahn. “The Value, Despite his pronouncements on “silence and light,” in his 1931 sketching article Kahn

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SAHARA Highlights: Modern Ahmedabad, India

at Carlton College. After his retirement, he donated them to SAHARA. Louis Kahn. Indian Institute, . Louis Kahn. Indian Institute of Management, dormitories. Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, 1962–1974, The Indian Institute of Management’s planned demolition of eighteen dormitories designed by Louis Kahn prompted an outrage in which the SAH and Docomomo participated. The IIM eventually backtracked, . Ahmedabad is home to works by both Kahn and Le Corbusier; it receives less of the world’s

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SAHARA Highlights: Medical Facilities

during the late segregation era. Louis I. Kahn, Alfred Newton Richards Medical Research Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, built 1957-1961. Photograph by G. E. Kidder Smith. Louis I. Kahn

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SAHARA Highlights: The Arch

importance as a structural element, and he explored its decorative effects. Louis Kahn, Bangladesh National Parliament, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1959–1982. Photograph by Gerald Moorhead, 2012. One of Kahn’s, as making a nod to the American architect he admired, Louis Kahn. Canopus, Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli, Italy, /#/login To learn more about contributing, visit: sah.org/sahara Louis Sullivan and George, . Louis, Missouri, 1968. Photograph by George Everard Kidder Smith, ca 1970s. The photographer

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