Louid Kahn

University of Santo Tomas
College Of Architecture

Master Architect:
Louis Isadore Kahn

Theory of Architecture II
Brain Mathew B. Parras
3AR-2

Table of Contents
Biography 4
Career 6
Philosophy 7
Projects 8
Trenton Bathhouse 8
Richards Medical Research Building 9
Salk Institute for Biological Studies 10
Indian Institute of Management 11
Fisher House 12
National Assembly Building, Bangladesh 13
Phillips Exeter Library 13
Kimbell Art Museum 15
Yale Center for British Art 15
Complete list of projects 16
Awards 19
Major Awards 19
American Institute of Architects 19
Royal Institute of British Architects 19
Aga Khan Award for Architecture 19
Complete list of awards 19
References 21

Louis Isadore Kahn (1901-1974)
Biography
Bertha Kahn Leopold Kahn
Louis Kahn Louis Kahn and his siblings
Louis Isadore Kahn was born in February 20, 1901 on the Baltic island of Osel (now Saaremaa) off the coast of Estonia to Leopold and Bertha Kahn. His father, Leopold Kahn, was a Jewish artisan in stained glass and a literate man gifted in languages while his mother, Bertha Mendelsohn Kahn, who was educated in Riga in the Germanic tradition. As a child of three, Louis Kahn suffered a dreadful accident that was to mark him literally for the remainder of his life, Attracted by the color of coals burning green instead of red or blue, he reached into the fire and pulled some out into his apron, the coals flared up and seriously burned his face and hands, leaving permanent disfiguring scars. His mother thought that he was touched by destiny after this and singled him out for support. Her special care and a talent in drawing that surfaced early sustained and distinguished Louis Kahn in his youth. His drawings in one story he later told, caught the attention of the captain of the ship bringing his family to America to join his father. The family was rewarded with oranges when his mother presented the captain with the five year-old’s drawing of a

References: My Architect: A Son’s Journey; Nathaniel Kahn The Art Museums of Louis I. Kahn; Patricia Cummings Loud http://www.archdaily.com http://www.designmuseum.org http://www.architect.architecture.sk -------------------------------------------- [ 2 ]. The Sesquicentennial International Exposition of 1926 was a world 's fair hosted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence, and the 50th anniversary of the 1876 Centennial Exposition [ 3 ]. For Kahn, architecture is not the art of space (sculpture can encompass space) or of use (we use all kinds of tools) but of human institutions. If we think about it, all architecture serves institutions: the house serves the institution of residence; the school serves the institution of education; the laboratory serves the institution of science; the church serves the institution of religion. [ 4 ].  The principle that architects should design a building based on the purpose of that building. [ 5 ]. An influential modernist style in architecture that developed in Europe and the United States in the 1920s and 1930s, characterized chiefly by regular, unadorned geometric forms, open interiors, and the use of glass, steel, and reinforced concrete.