Louis Isadore Kahn (born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky; March 5 [O.S. February 20] 1901 – March 17, 1974) was an Estonian-born American architect based in Philadelphia...
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Kahn, American economist Lisa M. Kahn (1921–2013), German-American scholar and poet Lloyd Kahn (born 1935), American publisher and author Louis Kahn (1901–1974)...
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Louis-Lazare Kahn (1895–1967, Paris), known as Admiral Louis Kahn, was the first French Jewish Admiral, and a leader of the French Jewish community. Louis...
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Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban (category Louis Kahn buildings)
the career and familial legacy of its architect, Louis Kahn. Robert McCarter, author of Louis I. Kahn, described the National Parliament of Bangladesh...
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Phillips Exeter Academy Library (category Louis Kahn buildings)
library with a contemporary design, the school gave the commission to Louis Kahn in 1965. The library opened in 1971. In 1997 the library received the...
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Modern architecture (section Louis Kahn)
Church of Rochester by Louis Kahn (1962) The Salk Institute by Louis Kahn (1962–63) Richards Medical Research Laboratories by Louis Kahn (1957–61) The Kimball...
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Robert Louis Kahn (March 28, 1918 – January 6, 2019) was an American psychologist and social scientist, specializing in organizational theory and survey...
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architect Louis Kahn – and Two Hands (2006) were nominated for Academy Awards. His mother is landscape architect Harriet Pattison. In 2018 Kahn directed...
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other architects such as French-Swiss Le Corbusier, Estonian-American Louis Kahn, German-American Mies van der Rohe, and Finnish Alvar Aalto. In the United...
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American architect Louis Kahn, the building is one of the largest legislative complexes in the world, comprising 200 acres (81 ha). Louis Kahn designed the...
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the national parliament. The government recruited American architect Louis Kahn to design the national assembly complex in Dacca. In 1955, Prime Minister...
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Kimbell Art Museum (category Louis Kahn buildings)
a new building to house it. The building was designed by architect Louis I. Kahn and is widely recognized as one of the most significant works of architecture...
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Anne Tyng (section Kahn documentary)
professor. She is best known for having collaborated for 29 years with Louis Kahn at his practice in Philadelphia. She served as a professor at the University...
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National School of Mines of Saint-Étienne), in 1919. She later married Louis Kahn, who became the first Jewish French Admiral, and crossed the Pyrenees...
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Salk Institute for Biological Studies (category Louis Kahn buildings)
Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts. Salk and architect Louis I. Kahn approached the city of San Diego in March 1960 about a gift of land...
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Robert Kahn may refer to: Robert Kahn (composer) (1865–1951), composer and music teacher Robert Louis Kahn (1918–2019), psychologist and social scientist...
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My Architect (category Films directed by Nathaniel Kahn)
2003 documentary film about the American architect Louis Kahn (1901–1974), by his son Nathaniel Kahn, detailing the architect's extraordinary career and...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park (category Louis Kahn buildings)
Manhattan Island and Queens. It was originally designed by the architect Louis Kahn in 1974, but funds were only secured for groundbreaking in 2010 and completion...
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architect Louis Kahn and B.V. Doshi as architects for the project. Kahn worked on the IIMA project from 1962 until his death in 1974. Kahn's architecture...
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furthered the Structuralist movement - influenced by the concepts of Louis Kahn in the United States, Kenzo Tange in Japan and John Habraken in the Netherlands...
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designed by contemporary architects. The Kimbell Art Museum was designed by Louis Kahn, with an addition designed by Renzo Piano. The Modern Art Museum of Fort...
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Richards Medical Research Laboratories (category Louis Kahn buildings)
University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, were designed by architect Louis Kahn and are considered to have been a breakthrough in his career. The building...
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architectural discourse in India. Having worked under Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, he was a pioneer of modernist and brutalist architecture in India. His...
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Margaret Esherick House (category Louis Kahn buildings)
most studied of the nine built houses designed by American architect Louis Kahn. Commissioned by Chestnut Hill bookstore owner Margaret Esherick, the...
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Yale University Art Gallery (category Louis Kahn buildings)
designed by Louis Kahn, who taught architecture at Yale.("Kahn played a major role in Yale's own artistic development. And Yale in turn would give Kahn the commission...
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Abraham Kahn in Marmoutier, Bas-Rhin, France, on 3 March 1860, the eldest of four children of Louis Kahn, a Jewish cattle dealer, and Babette Kahn (née Bloch)...
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Yale Center for British Art (category Louis Kahn buildings)
was designed by Louis I. Kahn and constructed at the corner of York and Chapel Streets in New Haven, across the street from one of Kahn's earliest buildings...
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Braun at the Curtis Institute of Music. In 1958, she met architect Louis Kahn. Kahn began a relationship with her and encouraged her study of landscape...
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the present place to fulfil the original plan of the parliament area by Louis Kahn. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party have given ultimatum regarding the news...
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Venice, Botta got to meet and work with the architects: Carlo Scarpa, Louis Kahn and Le Corbusier. Mario Botta started his own architectural practice in...
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