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Louis KahnLatest Stories

The Grays

John Lobell’s new book The Philadelphia School and the Future of Architecture offers a thorough recounting of an oft-overlooked period

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Cleaning the Fifth Facade

Louis Kahn’s Yale Center for British Art to close for exterior renovations until 2024

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Buildings Which Sing

Architectural voices from around the world write in support of preserving Louis Kahn’s campus at IIM Ahmedabad

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“What Do You Want, Brick?”

Louis Kahn’s complex at IIM Ahmedabad again faces threats of demolition, reconstruction, and renovation

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Insight, Inspiration, and Aspiration

At 50, Louis Kahn’s Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth remains a paragon of architectural achievement

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Happy Pride

New York City’s largest Pride flag covers Louis Kahn’s Four Freedoms State Park

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N95

Fort Worth architecture stars in Kendrick Lamar’s new music video

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A Life In Focus

Yugoslav architect Svetlana Kana Radević is saluted at the Venice Architecture Biennale

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You Kahn Do It!

Crowdfunding campaign for reissue of The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn enters the homestretch

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Cities Without Stories

Op-ed: South Asia needs to preserve its disappearing modernist history

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Not Done Yet...

The Kahn family speaks out as the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad remains threatened

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No, You Kahn’t Do That

Demolition of Louis Kahn’s Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad canceled after worldwide outcry

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The Fat Lady Hasn't Sung Yet

Louis Kahn’s Point Counterpoint II finds a permanent home in Philadelphia

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Salk it to Me

Kenneth Frampton on the evolution of Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute

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Do the Okeechobee

Louis Kahn’s floating concert hall finds a permanent home in Palm Beach County

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Inclusion in Architecture

Why are there so few disabled architects and architecture students?

Architecture in Dialogue

Five rules for an “uncharted” architecture from Balkrishna Doshi‘s Pritzker Prize lecture

The Power of Architecture

Louis Kahn’s architecture comes home to Philadelphia with major exhibition

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