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Louis Kahn Residential Architecture Design
Major 20th Century American Residences: US Architectural Information + Images
3 Oct 2016
Louis Kahn Residential Architecture Design
Louis Kahn?s Residential Architecture Masterpieces
Discover images from the book that highlights the Louis Kahn?s lesser-known residential projects

Article first published on Houzz
John Hill, Houzz Contributor
History has a way of mythologising people by embracing certain accomplishments over others. The great American architect Louis Isadore Kahn (1901?1974) is celebrated today for modern masterpieces that tap into a deep history: the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut; the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California; the Phillips Exeter Academy Library in Exeter, New Hampshire; the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas; the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad; and the National Assembly Building in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Missing from this account ? and from David B Brownlee and David G De Long?s 1997 exhibition and book, Louis I Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture, and son Nathaniel Kahn?s documentary, My Architect ? is the residential architecture that Kahn worked on throughout his career. Unlike many architects who start with houses and then (hopefully) move on to larger projects (offices, museums etc), Kahn never abandon...