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    Louis Isidore Kahn was an American architect born in Pennsylvania in 1901 who founded his own studio in 1935. Some of his most notable designs included the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, the Jatiyo Sangsad in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and the First Unitarian Church and School in Rochester, New York. Kahn's style tended towards monumental and monolithic buildings that emphasized the weight and materials used. He taught at Yale and the University of Pennsylvania and is considered one of the most influential architects of the 20th century beyond just modernism. Kahn died unexpectedly in 1974 at an Amtrak station from a heart attack.

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    Louis Isidore Kahn was an American architect born in Pennsylvania in 1901 who founded his own studio in 1935. Some of his most notable designs included the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, the Jatiyo Sangsad in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and the First Unitarian Church and School in Rochester, New York. Kahn's style tended towards monumental and monolithic buildings that emphasized the weight and materials used. He taught at Yale and the University of Pennsylvania and is considered one of the most influential architects of the 20th century beyond just modernism. Kahn died unexpectedly in 1974 at an Amtrak station from a heart attack.

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    Louis Isidore Kahn was an American architect born in Pennsylvania in 1901 who founded his own studio in 1935. Some of his most notable designs included the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, the Jatiyo Sangsad in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and the First Unitarian Church and School in Rochester, New York. Kahn's style tended towards monumental and monolithic buildings that emphasized the weight and materials used. He taught at Yale and the University of Pennsylvania and is considered one of the most influential architects of the 20th century beyond just modernism. Kahn died unexpectedly in 1974 at an Amtrak station from a heart attack.

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    Fisher House

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    Louis Isidore Kahn was an American architect born in Pennsylvania in 1901 who founded his own studio in 1935. Some of his most notable designs included the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, the Jatiyo Sangsad in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and the First Unitarian Church and School in Rochester, New York. Kahn's style tended towards monumental and monolithic buildings that emphasized the weight and materials used. He taught at Yale and the University of Pennsylvania and is considered one of the most influential architects of the 20th century beyond just modernism. Kahn died unexpectedly in 1974 at an Amtrak station from a heart attack.

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    Louis Isidore Kahn

    "The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it." - Louis I. Kahn
    Louis Isidore Kahn
    March 17, 1974) (February 20, 1901 or 1902

    Fisher House, Hatboro, Pennsylvania, 1960


    Here are some of his designs:
    1.Jonas Salk Institute for Biological Studies - plaza La Jolla, California, 1959-1967

    Here are some of his designs:


    3.Yale Center for British Art -New Haven, Connecticut, 1968-1974

    was an American architect of russian origins, who lived in Philadelphia. He founded his own atelier in 1935. While continuing his private practice, he served as a design from critic and professor of architecture at Yale School of Architecture 1947 to 1957. From 1957 until his death, he was a professor of architecture at the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. Influenced by ancient ruins, Kahn's style tends to the monumental and monolithic; his heavy 2.Jatiyo Sangsad (National Parliament of Bangladesh) -Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1962-1983 buildings do not hide their weight, their materials, or the way they are assembled. Louis Kahn's works are considered as monumental beyond modernism. His death: In 1974, Kahn died of a heart attack in a men's restroom in Pennysilvania station in New York. He went unidentified for three days because he had crossed out the home address on his passport. He had just returned from a work trip to Bangladesh, and despite his long career, he was deeply in debt when he died.
    Alessia Mazzon-Giumama Abu Sharar CLIL 2011-12

    3.First Unitarian Church and School -Roshester, New York, 1959-1969

    Louis Isidore Kahn

    Fisher House, Hatboro, Pennsylvania, 1960

    Alessia Mazzon-Giumama Abu Sharar

    CLIL 2011-12

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