Topic: Louis Kahn

AN AMBITIOUS plan to honor President Franklin D. Roosevelt's groundbreaking Four Freedoms speech in a memorial park - envisioned nearly 40 years...

Yale Center for British Art

You'll find the Yale Center for British Art in downtown New Haven, 80 miles north of New York City off the I-95. The YCBA (as its called by the staff) holds the largest and most comprehensive collection of British art outside ...

School for leaders

The football game has the Louis Kahn grounds all charged up within minutes. A group of young men and women are shouting hard, alleging foul-play. While the teams on the ground are shoving each other, their enthusiastic supporters on the sidelines are ...

Addition to Louis Kahn's Synagogue Draws Criticism

This summer, an Italian couple interested in Louis Kahn, the late Philadelphia architect celebrated for a poetic style of modernism inspired by ancient ruins, traveled to the United States to see some of his acclaimed buildings. Which is how a pair of ...

Born on Feb 20: Louis I. Kahn

The world-renowned architect Louis I. Kahn was born on February 20, 1901. Kahn designed some of the most important buildings of the twentieth century, yet he died penniless.

Sunday Styles

The cathedrals, mosques, and synagogues of the Old World still occupy the most hallowed ground of ecclesiastical architecture, but a rather unorthodox American sect can lay claim to the best in modern sacred space design: When the Unitarian Church in Westport, Connecticut ...

Andre Ravereau

Aspects of the topic Andr Ravereau are discussed in the following places at Britannica. Louis Kahn of the United States), or in the numerous buildings designed by the Frenchman Andre Ravereau in Mali or Algeria.

Louis I Kahn

March 17, 1974, New York, N.Y., U.S.), American architect whose buildings, characterized by powerful, massive forms, made him one of the most discussed architects to emerge after World War II.. In 1941 he was in partnership with George Howe and ...

Architecture: The Year in Review (2007)

Italian architect Renzo Piano was commissioned to create an addition to the Kimbell (Texas) Art Museum, which was considered to be one of the masterpieces of 20th-century architecture by American architect Louis Kahn. Among other notable Piano buildings were the vast Kansai ...

Capital Complex in Bangladesh

In the flood plains of Bangladesh lies an architectural masterpiece that would be a jewel anywhere in the world. The design was architect Louis Kahn's last opportunity to explore a timeless form of architecture that marries the modern and traditional.. The ...