Louis I. Kahn: The American Architect Who Pursued His Passion as an Art
The IIM Ahmedabad project represented an opportunity for Kahn to explore the diagonal motif as an aesthetic and architectonic geometry, whether it served the programme organically or not.
American architect Louis Kahn. Photo: Gerhard Richter/CC BY-SA 3.0/ Wikimedia Commons
Culture18/Jan/2021
I got to know American architect Louis I. Kahn when I was a student of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania (1957-1963). We had little personal interaction at that time, but several years later, after leaving a meeting together at the American Institute of Architects, we walked through Philadelphiaâs centre city, finally resting on benches near City Hall.