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Louis Isidore Kahn
is considered one of the greatest architects of the twentieth century.
"That's a good question. I have learned over time that a good question is more important than the most brilliant response. This is the issue of non-measurable and measurable. Nature, the physical is measurable. The feeling and the dream did not measure, no language, and the dream of everyone is singular. "
" Even a piece that should be dark need at least a small slot that will make account of its obscurity. But now the architects who draw parts have forgotten their faith in natural light. Subject to the ease of a switch, they are satisfied with a static light and forget the infinite qualities of natural light thanks to a room which is different every second of the day. "
Nationality: American
Birth: February 20, 1901
Died: March 17, 1974
Born on the Estonian island of Osel (now Saaremaa), Louis Isidore Kahn arrives to four years in the suburb of Philadelphia , and became naturalized American at the age of thirteen. With his aptitude for drawing and piano, he won a scholarship to undertake studies in architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. On leaving, he worked for the French designer Paul Cret (1929-1930), and then at Zantzinger, Drinking and Medary (1930-1932). For some
years, Louis Kahn's trip to Europe and then decided to open its branch in Philadelphia in 1937 (the early 1940s, he partnered with two European immigrants George and Oscar Howe Stonorov). At the same time, he became a consultant to the Philadelphia Housing Authority and the United States Housing Authority. From the 1940s he embarked on construction projects such as subdivisions of Carver Court (1941-1944, Coatesville, Pa.), Pennypacker Woods (1941-1943, Philadelphia) and Mill Creek Housing (1951 to 1963, Philadelphia). In 1947 he began a brilliant career at Yale University, then continued his teaching University of Pennsylvania (1957-1974). It looks at the ancient architecture (especially Egyptian) and reintroduced axial planes.
Louis Kahn believes in the development of industrial society in the social mission of architecture and promotes the international style. Its contemporary architecture and monumental advocates almost exclusively as the concrete forms and simple compositions. The steel frame does not seem to offer real walls (the substructure disappearing under the fire-resistant coatings). Only the brick is sometimes used to hide some parts in concrete. With reference to Le Corbusier, Louis Kahn believes that the layout of spaces is paramount; the harmony of the body should not be disruptive.
During his twenty-five years of life, Louis Kahn built his most significant buildings (religious buildings, exhibition spaces, government buildings) in the U.S. and Asia. One of the most compelling is the complex of the Salk Institute (1959-1965, La Jolla), it consists of two wings defining an axis against the powerful Pacific Ocean. The workrooms are not broken, the stairs (as well as service rooms and offices) are grafted into arranged cells forward. In 1962, Louis Kahn receives its biggest order as the Government of Bangladesh: the complex of Sher-e Bangla Nagar, Dhaka. In 1971, he was admitted to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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It will accomplish this miracle: the National Assembly of Bangladesh designed by an architect of the Jewish faith to a Muslim country! He died suddenly of a heart attack in the toilets of a station in New York.
the night of March 17, 1974, a man was found dying in the men's room of Pennsylvannia Station by three policemen. He died within minutes following and will remain three days at the morgue before being identified, it had dropped from his hand his address. One of the greatest architects of the twentieth century had died of a heart attack as the most miserable archicool
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