With
designs that combined timeless forms and modern techniques, Louis Kahn became
known as one of the leading American architects of the 20th century.
Louis
Kahn was born in Pärnu, Estonia, on February 20, 1901. His family emigrated to
the United States when Kahn was a child; he later studied architecture at the
University of Pennsylvania and opened his own firm in 1935. His major works
include the Yale University Art Gallery, the Kimbell Art Museum and the capitol
complex in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Kahn died in New York City on March 17, 1974.
Design is not making beauty, beauty
emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
A great building must begin with the
unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in
the end must be unmeasurable.
Architecture is the reaching out for
the truth.
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