Nathaniel Kahn released a documentary about his father, My Architect: A Son's Journey
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Louis Kahn
Louis Isadore Kahn was an Estonian-born American architect based in Philadelphia. After working in various capacities for several firms in Philadelphia, he founded his own atelier in 1935. While continuing his private practice, he served as a design critic and professor of architecture at Yale School of Architecture from 1947 to 1957. From 1957 until his death, he was a professor of architecture a…
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culture · Estonian-American architect (1901–1974) · architect · university teacher · painter · designer · teacher · philosopher · also Louis Kahn, Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky, Louis I. Kahn, Louis I Kahn, Kahn
Born 20 February 1901 · Died 17 March 1974 · Q210134
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded Rokach Award (1984).
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1974· 3 entries
Died 1974-03-17.
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As he passed alone through New York City's Penn Station
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Kahn died of a heart attack soon after a work trip to India
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1972· 1 entry
Won Royal Gold Medal (1972).
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1971· 1 entry
Received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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1970· 1 entry
Won Golden Plate Award (1970).
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1968· 1 entry
And awarded the AIA Gold Medal, the highest award given by the AIA, in 1971, and the Royal Gold Medal by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), in 1972
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1965· 1 entry
Was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician, and received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from Yale University
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1964· 1 entry
Won Frank P. Brown Medal (1964).
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1962· 1 entry
At the International Design Conference in Aspen, Colorado:
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1961· 1 entry
Received a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts to study traffic movement in Philadelphia and to create a proposal for a viaduct system
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1953· 1 entry
To mitigate the scandal, she went to Rome for the birth of their daughter
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1940· 1 entry
Along with German-born architect Oscar Stonorov, for the design of housing developments in other parts of Pennsylvania
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1932· 1 entry
Kahn and Dominique Berninger founded the Architectural Research Group, whose members were interested in the populist social agenda and new aesthetics of the European avant-gardes
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1929· 1 entry
Kahn worked in the offices of Paul Philippe Cret, his former studio critic at the University of Pennsylvania, and then with Zantzinger, Borie and Medary in Philadelphia
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1928· 1 entry
Kahn made a European tour
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1924· 1 entry
Kahn worked as senior draftsman in the office of the city architect, John Molitor
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1906· 1 entry
His family emigrated to the United States, as they feared that his father would be recalled into the military during the Russo-Japanese War
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1901· 1 entry
Born 1901-02-20.
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