Louis Kahn | |
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Born | |
Died | March 17, 1974 New York City, New York, U.S. | (aged 73)
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Architect |
Parent(s) | Bertha Schmuilowsky Leopold Schmuilowsky |
Awards | AIA Gold Medal RIBA Gold Medal |
Buildings | Jatiyo Sangshad Bhaban Yale University Art Gallery Salk Institute Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad Phillips Exeter Academy Library Kimbell Art Museum |
Projects | Center of Philadelphia, Urban and Traffic Study |
Louis Isadore Kahn (born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky) (March 5 [O.S. February 20] 1901 – March 17, 1974) was an Estonian-born American architect.[2] His career was set in Philadelphia.
He founded his own atelier in 1935. While continuing his private practice, he was a design critic and professor of architecture at Yale School of Architecture from 1947 to 1957. From 1957 until his death, he was a professor of architecture at the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania.
Kahn died of a heart attack on March 17, 1974 in a bathroom at Penn Station in Manhattan, aged 73.[3]
The Estonian-born architect Kahn (1901–1974), who immigrated with his family to Philadelphia in 1906
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