Among the more than 200 objects in the exhibit “Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture,” currently at the San Diego Museum of Art, is one that’s easy to miss — not only because of its placement but ...
The fruit of years of assiduous research, Wendy Lesser’s study of Louis Kahn synthesizes his life and work in a literary equivalent of an architectural composition: Lesser’s account oscillates between ...
he first time I saw the library at Phillips Exeter Academy, I didn’t understand the fuss. For five hours in the car, my interior-designer mother raved about this triumph by mid-20th-century architect ...
Four decades after his death, Louis Kahn remains one of the world’s most influential 20 th-century architects. And nowhere is he more renowned than in Philadelphia—a somewhat ironic reality, since ...