There are only nine private homes built according to plan by late architect Louis Kahn (1901 - 1974) —a surprisingly small number when considering the length and breadth of the architect's career.

"How accidental our existences are, how full of influence by circumstance." Abramorama has revealed the new 2022 official trailer for My Architect, a documentary film from 2003 that is getting a ...

A striking example of the use of the creative homospatial process — conceiving two or more discrete entities occupying the same space, a conception leading to the articulation of new identities ...

After having a son with the famous architect, she built a career, often collaborating with Mr. Kahn on projects, including a New York memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt. By Fred A. Bernstein The first ...

According to ‘08 alumna Rebecca Kantor, her grandfather, world-renowned architect Louis Kahn was fascinated with beginnings. But while much is known about Kahn’s later life, his early childhood ...

Rajnish Wattas, author, critic, and former principal of the Chandigarh College of Architecture, as published in The Tribune on December 3 Luminaries are lamenting this mindless ‘bulldozer’ and ...

Though famed 20th-century American architect Louis Kahn did much of the work that would win him both AIA and RIBA gold medals while based in Philadelphia, the architect’s influence is truly global.

Well-known architects are easy to admire or dismiss from afar, but up close, oddly humanizing habits often come to light. However, while we all have our quirks, most people's humanizing habits don't ...

PHILADELPHIA — When the renowned Philadelphia architect Louis Kahn died in 1974, The New York Times named just one of his three children — or families — in his obituary. Kahn, an unconventional force ...

When the architect Louis I. Kahn collapsed and died in the men’s room of Penn Station in 1974, he left behind many things. There were buildings of monumental importance and vision, like the Salk ...

Louis Kahn (1901–1974) was an American architect renowned for his monumental and modernist designs. Born on February 20, 1901, in Pärnu, Estonia, Kahn immigrated to the United States with his family ...