Louis Kahn

“What does the Building want to be?”

–Kahn

Richards Medical Research Building at Penn (1957-60)

Richards Medical Research (U Penn) 1957

Campanili in village of San Gimigano, Italy

Construction

exterior, structural detail

plan

Office module

Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla (1959-65)

Salk Institute La Jolla, CA 1959

Barnet Newman

Barnet Newman

plan

Library, Philips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH, 1968-72

the largest endowment of any secondary school in the United States $639 million.

Exeter Academy Library, Exeter, NH 1968

Interior, stair

Interior, carol

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (1966-72)

                                                    

Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth, TX 1966

Section (built from the inside out)

National Assembly Building

Dhaka, Bangladesh1962

Dhaka, City map

Site drawing

A man-made moat separates the National Assembly block from the other buildings in the complex

plan, main building

Prayer hall