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Class 12B Louis Kahn

Louis I. Kahn

Born 1901 in Estonia

Emigrated to the U.S. 1905

Design Critic at Yale 1947-57

Professor of Architecture

at the University of Pennsylvania

1957-74

Died 1974 in New York City

Early work: Oser House Elkins Park, Penn. 1940

Yale University Art Gallery New Haven, 1951

Yale University Art Gallery

Richards Medical Research Laboratories U.Penn, Philadelphia, 1958

Richards Medical Research Labs

First Unitarian Church Rochester, N.Y. 1959

Salk Institute La Jolla, Calif. 1960

Salk Institute

Indian Institute of Management Ahmadabad, India 1962

Indian Institute of Management

National Assembly Building Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1962-75

National Assembly Building, Dhaka

Phillips Exeter Academy Library Exeter, N.H. 1965

Phillips Exeter Academy Library

Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth, Tex. 1966

Kimbell Art Museum

Yale Center for British Art New Haven, 1969

Yale Center for British Art

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