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5 unusual facts about Louis Kahn


Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam

Next to classic feature films as The Fountainhead and Blade Runner or documentaries about architects as Louis Kahn or Frank Gehry, films are screened about the influence of media on the city, the depiction of cities in film and outstanding set design such as in Silent Running.

Fred E. and Elaine Cox Clever House

The Fred E. and Elaine Cox Clever House at 417 Sherry Way, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, was designed by architect Louis Kahn.

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

The building is a major icon of modernism architecture, designed by American architect Louis Kahn.

Kasturbhai Lalbhai

He commissioned world-renowned architects such as Louis Kahn, Le Corbusier, B. V. Doshi and Charles Correa to design some of these institutes and bring modern architecture in Ahmedabad.

Montgomery Plaza

A few blocks west is Fort Worth’s Cultural District - the third largest in the United States, encompassing the Will Rogers Memorial Center; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, designed by Tadao Ando; the Amon Carter Museum of American Art; and the Kimbell Art Museum, designed by Louis Kahn.


103 Colmore Row

Designs for the building were first publicised in 1964 and it was remarked that it had drawn inspiration from the University of Pittsburgh by Louis Kahn.

Cornelia Oberlander

Oberlander began work with Louis Kahn and Oscar Stonorov in Philadelphia and then with landscape architect Dan Kiley in Vermont before moving with her husband in 1953 to Vancouver, where she founded a small landscape architecture firm.

Creative Playthings

Frank Caplan worked with such notable artists, architects, and designers as Isamu Noguchi, Louis Kahn, Henry Moore, and Robert Winston on comprehensive playground designs - although some of these designs were not fully realized.

Timothy Dwight College

Nathaniel Kahn, 1984: Academy Award-nominated for his documentary "My Architect," about his father, Louis Kahn.


see also

Anne Tyng

Aged 82, Anne Tyng appeared in Nathaniel Kahn's documentary My Architect discussing her insights into his work and her experience with Louis Kahn.

Jatiyo Sangsad Bhaban

The building was featured prominently in the 2003 film My Architect, detailing the career and familial legacy of its architect, Louis Kahn.