There are only nine private homes built according to plan by late architect Louis Kahn (1901 - 1974) —a surprisingly small number when considering the length and breadth of the architect's career.

"How accidental our existences are, how full of influence by circumstance." Abramorama has revealed the new 2022 official trailer for My Architect, a documentary film from 2003 that is getting a ...

Louis Kahn (1901–1974) was an American architect renowned for his monumental and modernist designs. Born on February 20, 1901, in Pärnu, Estonia, Kahn immigrated to the United States with his family ...

A striking example of the use of the creative homospatial process — conceiving two or more discrete entities occupying the same space, a conception leading to the articulation of new identities ...

Well-known architects are easy to admire or dismiss from afar, but up close, oddly humanizing habits often come to light. However, while we all have our quirks, most people's humanizing habits don't ...

Rajnish Wattas, author, critic, and former principal of the Chandigarh College of Architecture, as published in The Tribune on December 3 Luminaries are lamenting this mindless ‘bulldozer’ and ...

Last year, the only surviving commercial work designed by architect Louis I. Kahn was torn down with little fanfare in Philadelphia. Coward Shoes at 1122 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia on April 25, ...

It has been two decades since Nathaniel Kahn's acclaimed documentary, My Architect: A Son's Journey (2003), renewed interest in architect Louis I Kahn, the American designer of our National Parliament ...

In 1901, when a young Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky was born to Jewish parents on the Estonian island of Saaremaa, few could have imagined the international fame in the boy’s future. But after a 1906 move ...

The architect who designed some of the 20th century’s great buildings kept a notebook with intimate glimpses into his creative vision. Now it’s his daughter’s final goodbye. By Sam Lubell After having ...

Last September, we shared the news of Louis Kahn’s memorial park for the southernmost tip of Roosevelt Island. Kahn had designed the park in the 70s, but after his sudden death, the plan was forgotten ...