Louis I. Kahn portrait of Dr. Charles Burr, ca. 1935.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861-1944.

Burr, Charles W.

University of Pennsylvania--Dept. of Psychiatry--History--Sources.

University of Pennsylvania.

Architects--Archives.

Architects.

Genre:

Drawings.

Physical Description:

1 drawing.

Other Title:

Louis I. Kahn collections.

Place of Publication:

ca. 1935.

Biography/History:

Louis I. Kahn was born in Estonia and raised in Philadelphia. He was trained in architecture in the Beaux-Arts tradition at the University of Pennsylvania under Paul Philippe Cret. As a mature architect, Kahn was distinguished from his contemporaries (in a period dominated by the International Style) by his unique personal philosophy of architecture and a style marked by a profound sense of history and pure geometry in design and the texture of materials in construction. His legacy is as much in his teaching and his unbuilt designs as in his major built works. He lectured and wrote on architecture beginning in the 1930s. He taught at Yale University from 1947 to 1955 and was Cret Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania from 1956 until his death.

Summary:

The collection comprises one original drawing (lithographic crayon on illustration board) by Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974) of Dr. Charles W. Burr, first professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. The drawing shows Burr presenting a patient in the rotunda of the old Pennsylvania General Hospital. The drawing was commissioned by the Philadelphia Psychiatric Association for presentation to Dr. Burr around 1935. A lithographic print which closely resembles this drawing is in the collection of the Architect's daughter, Sue Ann Kahn. An image of this lithograph is published on page 200 of Jan Hockstim's The Paintings and Sketches of Louis I. Kahn.

Finding Aid/Index:

This collection is indexed in Philadelphia Architects and Buildings, a searchable database of architectural research materials. See Web Link.

Cited as:

Collection 219, The Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

232996038

Access Restriction:

Collection available for research by appointment only.

Online:

Philadelphia Architects and Buildings