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Louis Isidore Kahn  Fisher House, Hatboro, Pennsylvania, 1960

"The world never needed Beethoven's

Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now 

we could not live without it."  - Louis I.

Kahn

Louis Isidore Kahn  (February 20, 1901 or 1902 –March 17, 1974) was an American architect of 

russian origins, who lived in Philadelphia.

He founded his own atelier in 1935. While

continuing his private practice, he served as a

design from critic and professor of architecture

at Yale School of Architecture

1947 to 1957.

From 1957 until his death, he was a professor of 

architecture at the School of Design at the

University of Pennsylvania. Influenced by

ancient ruins, Kahn's style tends to the

monumental and monolithic; his heavy

buildings do not hide their weight, their

materials, or the way they are assembled. Louis

Kahn's works are considered as monumental

beyond modernism.

His death: In 1974, Kahn died of a heart attackin a men's restroom in Pennysilvania station in

New York. He went unidentified for three days

because he had crossed out the home address

on his passport. He had just returned from a

work trip to Bangladesh, and despite his long

career, he was deeply in debt when he died.

Here are some of his designs:

1.Jonas Salk Institute for Biological Studies

- plaza La Jolla, California, 1959-1967

2.Jatiyo Sangsad (National Parliament of Bangladesh)

-Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1962-1983

Here are some of his designs:

3.Yale Center for British Art

-New Haven, Connecticut, 1968-1974

3.First Unitarian Church and School 

-Roshester, New York, 1959-1969

Alessia Mazzon-Giumama Abu Sharar CLIL 2011-12

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Louis Isidore Kahn  Fisher House, Hatboro, Pennsylvania, 1960

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