Editing Louis Kahn (section)

===Education===
Kahn excelled in art from a young age, repeatedly winning the annual award for the best watercolor by a Philadelphia high school student. He was an unenthusiastic and undistinguished student at [[Philadelphia Central High School]] until he took a course in architecture in his senior year, which convinced him to become an architect.  He turned down an offer to go to the [[Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts]] to study art under a full scholarship, instead working at a variety of jobs to pay his own tuition for a degree in architecture at the [[University of Pennsylvania School of Design|University of Pennsylvania School of Fine Arts]].  There, he studied under [[Paul Philippe Cret]] in a version of the [[Beaux-Arts architecture|Beaux-Arts tradition]], one that discouraged excessive ornamentation.<ref>{{cite book| last=Lesser| first=Wendy| title=You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn| date=March 14, 2017| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fj7jDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA56| pages=56–60| publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux| isbn=978-0374713317}}</ref>