Architect

Louis Kahn

Louis Kahn was an Estonian-born American architect whose monumental late works include the parliament complex in Dhaka.

1901-1974

Estonian-American

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Institutional Building Research Campus Laboratory Parliament Civic Building Government Building Education Campus Building

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Gallery

Louis Kahn gallery

Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban image

Seed wave 65 image for Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban.

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Yale Center for British Art image

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Phillips Exeter Academy Library image

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First Unitarian Church of Rochester image

United States historic place

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Olivetti-Underwood Factory image

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Works

Bureaus

Books

Places

Cities

California1 Dhaka1 Ewing Township1 Exeter1 Fort Worth1 La Jolla1

Countries

United States9 Bangladesh1

Sources

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Focus

education · campus building · house

Concrete Brick Steel

Bureaus

Bureau

Louis Kahn

studio · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Role: founder

Years: 1935-1974

Founder relationship

Selected works

Salk Institute

1959-1965 · La Jolla, California, United States

Research institute

Louis Kahn

Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban

1961-1982 · Dhaka, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh

Parliament building

Louis Kahn

Yale Center for British Art

1966 · New Haven, United States

Education building

Louis Kahn

Kimbell Art Museum

1972 · Fort Worth, Texas, United States

Museum

Louis Kahn

Phillips Exeter Academy Library

1972 · Exeter, United States

Education building

Louis Kahn

Flora Lamson Hewlett Library

1981 · California, United States

Education building

Louis Kahn

First Unitarian Church of Rochester

Unknown · Rochester, United States

Sacred building

Louis Kahn

Olivetti-Underwood Factory

Unknown · Pennsylvania, United States

Museum

Louis Kahn

Richards Medical Research Laboratories

Unknown · Philadelphia, United States

Education building

Louis Kahn

Trenton Bath House

Unknown · Ewing Township, United States

House

Louis Kahn

Books

Book

monograph

Louis I. Kahn: Complete Work 1935-1974

Heinz Ronner, Sharad Jhaveri, Alessandra Latour · 1987 · Birkhauser

Basel

light · structure · served and servant space