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    Louis Isadore Kahn (born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky; March 5 [O.S. February 20] 1901 – March 17, 1974) was an Estonian-born American architect based in Philadelphia...
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  • Kahn, American economist Lisa M. Kahn (1921–2013), German-American scholar and poet Lloyd Kahn (born 1935), American publisher and author Louis Kahn (1901–1974)...
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  • Louis-Lazare Kahn (1895–1967, Paris), known as Admiral Louis Kahn, was the first French Jewish Admiral, and a leader of the French Jewish community. Louis...
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    Phillips Exeter Academy Library (category Louis Kahn buildings)
    library with a contemporary design, the school gave the commission to Louis Kahn in 1965. The library opened in 1971. In 1997 the library received the...
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    Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban (category Louis Kahn buildings)
    the career and familial legacy of its architect, Louis Kahn. Robert McCarter, author of Louis I. Kahn, described the National Parliament of Bangladesh...
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    architect Louis Kahn – and Two Hands (2006) were nominated for Academy Awards. His mother is landscape architect Harriet Pattison. In 2018 Kahn directed...
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    Church of Rochester by Louis Kahn (1962) The Salk Institute by Louis Kahn (1962–63) Richards Medical Research Laboratories by Louis Kahn (1957–61) The Kimball...
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  • Robert Louis Kahn (March 28, 1918 – January 6, 2019) was an American psychologist and social scientist, specializing in organizational theory and survey...
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  • other architects such as French-Swiss Le Corbusier, Estonian-American Louis Kahn, German-American Mies van der Rohe, and Finnish Alvar Aalto. In the United...
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  • professor. She is best known for having collaborated for 29 years with Louis Kahn at his practice in Philadelphia. She served as a professor at the University...
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    Kimbell Art Museum (category Louis Kahn buildings)
    a new building to house it. The building was designed by architect Louis I. Kahn and is widely recognized as one of the most significant works of architecture...
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  • National School of Mines of Saint-Étienne), in 1919. She later married Louis Kahn, who became the first Jewish French Admiral, and crossed the Pyrenees...
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  • My Architect (category Films directed by Nathaniel Kahn)
    2003 documentary film about the American architect Louis Kahn (1901–1974), by his son Nathaniel Kahn, detailing the architect's extraordinary career and...
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    Salk Institute for Biological Studies (category Louis Kahn buildings)
    Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts. Salk and architect Louis I. Kahn approached the city of San Diego in March 1960 about a gift of land...
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    furthered the Structuralist movement - influenced by the concepts of Louis Kahn in the United States, Kenzo Tange in Japan and John Habraken in the Netherlands...
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    Yale University Art Gallery (category Louis Kahn buildings)
    designed by Louis Kahn, who taught architecture at Yale.("Kahn played a major role in Yale's own artistic development. And Yale in turn would give Kahn the commission...
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    the national parliament. The government recruited American architect Louis Kahn to design the national assembly complex in Dacca. In 1955, Prime Minister...
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  • Robert Kahn may refer to: Robert Kahn (composer) (1865–1951), composer and music teacher Robert Louis Kahn (1918–2019), psychologist and social scientist...
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    Fisher House (Hatboro, Pennsylvania) (category Louis Kahn buildings)
    also known as the Norman Fisher House, was designed by the architect Louis Kahn and built for Dr. Norman Fisher and his wife, Doris in 1967 in Hatboro...
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    Margaret Esherick House (category Louis Kahn buildings)
    most studied of the nine built houses designed by American architect Louis Kahn. Commissioned by Chestnut Hill bookstore owner Margaret Esherick, the...
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  • architect Louis Kahn and B.V. Doshi as architects for the project. Kahn worked on the IIMA project from 1962 until his death in 1974. Kahn's architecture...
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    Herman Kahn (February 15, 1922 – July 7, 1983) was an American physicist and a founding member of the Hudson Institute, regarded as one of the preeminent...
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park (category Louis Kahn buildings)
    Manhattan Island and Queens. It was originally designed by the architect Louis Kahn in 1974, but funds were only secured for groundbreaking in 2010 and completion...
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    designed by contemporary architects. The Kimbell Art Museum was designed by Louis Kahn, with an addition designed by Renzo Piano. The Modern Art Museum of Fort...
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    Richards Medical Research Laboratories (category Louis Kahn buildings)
    University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, were designed by architect Louis Kahn and are considered to have been a breakthrough in his career. The building...
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  • Better Philadelphia Exhibition in collaboration with Oscar Stonorov and Louis Kahn. Bacon was also an early member of the City Policy Committee, a grassroots...
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    Abraham Kahn in Marmoutier, Bas-Rhin, France, on 3 March 1860, the eldest of four children of Louis Kahn, a Jewish cattle dealer, and Babette Kahn (née Bloch)...
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    architectural discourse in India. Having worked under Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, he was a pioneer of modernist and brutalist architecture in India. His...
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    August Komendant (category Louis Kahn buildings)
    architect Louis Kahn in a productive but contentious collaboration that lasted from 1956 until Kahn's death in 1974. His innovative work as Kahn's structural...
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    Louis B. Kahn (9 May 1918 – 5 July 2012) was an American computer scientist and statistician. Kahn was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Hungarian and Latvian...
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