Louis Isadore Kahn was an Estonian-born American architect based in Philadelphia. After working in various capacities for several firms in Philadelphia, he founded his own atelier in 1935. While continuing his private practice, he served as 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.
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Works in Collection
121 works
Alfred Newton Richards Medical Research Building and Biol...
Louis I. Kahn
1957
Alfred Newton Richards Medical Research Building and Biol...
Louis I. Kahn
1957
Alfred Newton Richards Medical Research Building and Biol...
Louis I. Kahn
1957
Alfred Newton Richards Medical Research Building and Biol...
Louis I. Kahn
1960
Alfred Newton Richards Medical Research Building and Biol...
Louis I. Kahn
1957
Alfred Newton Richards Medical Research Building and Biol...
Louis I. Kahn
1957
![Alfred Newton Richards Medical Research Building, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (Overall building complex [final version], scale model 1/16" = 1')](https://www.moma.org/media/W1siZiIsIjQzOTI4NSJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcmVzaXplIDEwMjR4MTAyNFx1MDAzZSJdXQ.jpg?sha=f18f1e30b78f06a7)
Alfred Newton Richards Medical Research Building, Univers...
Louis I. Kahn
1957–1965
![Alfred Newton Richards Medical Research Building, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Structure of typical laboratory tower [final version])](https://www.moma.org/media/W1siZiIsIjUzMTI0MyJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcmVzaXplIDEwMjR4MTAyNFx1MDAzZSJdXQ.jpg?sha=4c65ee888723a3e7)
Alfred Newton Richards Medical Research Building, Univers...
Louis I. Kahn
1957–1965
City Tower project, Philadelphia, PA (Perspective sketch)
Louis I. Kahn
1952-1953
Civic Center Studies, project, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
Louis I. Kahn
1956-57
Civic Center Studies, project, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
Louis I. Kahn
1956
Civic Center Studies, project, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
Louis I. Kahn
1957
Civic Center Studies, project, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
Louis I. Kahn
1956-57
Civic Center Studies, project, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
Louis I. Kahn
Unknown
Civic Center, project, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Aerial...
Louis I. Kahn
1957
Eleanor Donnelley Erdman Hall, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Ma...
Louis I. Kahn
1960-61
Eleanor Donnelley Erdman Hall, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Ma...
Louis I. Kahn
1962
Eleanor Donnelley Erdman Hall, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Ma...
Louis I. Kahn
1960-61
Fine Arts Center, School, and Performing Arts Theater, Fo...
Louis I. Kahn
1959-73
Fine Arts Center, School, and Performing Arts Theater, Fo...
Louis I. Kahn
1963
Fine Arts Center, School, and Performing Arts Theater, Fo...
Louis I. Kahn
1963
Fine Arts Center, School, and Performing Arts Theater, Fo...
Louis I. Kahn
1963
Fine Arts Center, School, and Performing Arts Theater, Fo...
Louis I. Kahn
1963
First Unitarian Church and School, Rochester, New York, F...
Louis I. Kahn
1961
Exhibitions
11 exhibitionsJun 08, 1936 – Jul 13, 1936
Architecture in Government Housing
20 artists · 1 curator
Jun 28, 1938 – Sep 12, 1938
Wheaton College Competition
27 artists · 1 curator
Sep 29, 1960 – Dec 04, 1960
Visionary Architecture
17 artists · 1 curator
Jun 06, 1961 – Jul 16, 1961
Richards Medical Research Building, Louis I. Kahn, Architect
1 artist · 1 curator
May 27, 1964
Philip L. Goodwin Galleries of Architecture and Design
23 artists · 1 curator
Apr 26, 1966 – May 30, 1966
The Architecture of Louis I. Kahn
1 artist · 2 curators
Sep 25, 1968 – Nov 11, 1968
Architecture of Museums
37 artists · 1 curator
Oct 17, 1968 – Nov 17, 1968
Memorial to Six Million Jewish Martyrs
1 artist
Feb 01, 1974 – Sep 29, 1974
Architectural Models from the Collection
11 artists · 1 curator
Mar 22, 1974 – Apr 07, 1974
Louis I. Kahn: 19011974
4 artists · 1 curator
Feb 21, 1979 – Apr 24, 1979
Transformations in Modern Architecture
320 artists · 1 curator