And I'm Barbara Klein with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today, we tell about Louis Kahn. He is considered one of the most important American building designers of the 20th ...

Here are six buildings designed by Louis Kahn in and around New York. The city commissioned architect Louis Kahn for the memorial, and in 1973 he began drawing up its plans. The park, which is ...

was designed by Modernist architect Louis Kahn. His symmetrical, saw-tooth arrangement of brut concrete buildings frames a brilliant travertine plaza devised by Mexican architect Luis Barragán.

Louis Kahn established himself as a prolific architect even during his relatively short career. The University of Pennsylvania’s architectural archives holds more than 6,000 drawings by Kahn, who ...

R. Curtis’s report in Architectural Record about IIMA’s decision to demolish the dormitories and to replace them with new buildings. Yet, a letter dated December 22 and signed by Kahn’s ...

Editor's note1/4/21: Read the story update titled Louis Kahn’s Dormitories at the Indian Institute of Management ... Corb had, of course, built four buildings in Ahmedabad, among them the magisterial ...

The last one, Louis Kahn, went away in a dramatic way – it’s an irreplaceable loss.’ Scarpa, like many architects, was a deep admirer of the work of Kahn, whose temple-like buildings, while not ...

We know much about Louis Kahn. The Estonian-born (tsarist Russian at the time) American architect based in Philadelphia built his career on monumental buildings that often used exposed reinforced ...

His buildings were like mathematical theorems ... Though he was once called one of the foremost living architects, Louis Kahn suffered more than his share of pain and struggle in his lifetime.

At the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A), the red-brick iconic structures created by renowned American architect Louis ... buildings but stressed on keeping the ‘legacy of Kahn ...