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Photographs and other materials related to projects of Louis I Kahn, architect, 1947-1962.
Architectural Archives, 215 898-8323 276
Mixed Availability
- Format:
- Other
- Author/Creator:
- Sauers, Robert.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architects--Archives.
- Architects.
- Architectural design--History--20th century--Sources.
- Architectural design.
- Architectural drawing--United States.
- Architectural drawing.
- Genre:
- Architectural drawings -- American.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item.
- 27 photoprints.
- 2 folders.
- Other Title:
- Robert Sauers collection.
- Louis I. Kahn collections.
- Place of Publication:
- 1947-1962.
- 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 (1947-1955) and was Cret Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania from 1956 until his death.
- Summary:
- This collection comprises photographic materials related to the Triangle Redevelopment Project, the Adler Residence, the American Federation of Labor Medical Services Building, the Alfred Newton Richards Medical Research Building, the Goldenberg Residence, and the Fleisher Residence. The collection also contains additional materials.
- 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 276, The Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania.
- OCLC:
- 245190315
- Access Restriction:
- Collection available for research by appointment only.
- Online:
- Philadelphia Architects and Buildings
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