Editing Louis Kahn (section)

==Designs==
[[File:Kimbell Art Museum.jpg|thumb|220px|[[Kimbell Art Museum]], Fort Worth, Texas (1966–1972)]]
[[File:Sangshad inside.jpg|thumb|upright|Play of light inside [[Jatiyo Sangshad Bhaban]]]]
* [[Yale University Art Gallery]], New Haven, Connecticut (1951–1953), the first significant commission of Louis Kahn. The ceilings, which are three feet (0.9 meters) thick, consist of a grid of triangular openings that draw the eye upward into dimly-lit, three-sided pyramidal spaces.  These exposed spaces provide the means for channeling the heating, cooling, and electrical services throughout the galleries.<ref>{{cite book |title=Louis I. Kahn |last=McCarter |first=Robert |year=2005 |publisher=[[Phaidon Press]] |location=London |isbn=978-0714849713 |page=68}}</ref>
* [[Richards Medical Research Laboratories]], University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1957–1965), a breakthrough in Kahn's career that helped set new directions for modern architecture with its clear expression of served and servant spaces and its evocation of the architecture of the past.
* The [[Salk Institute]], La Jolla, California (1959–1965) was to be a campus composed of three main clusters: meeting and conference areas, living quarters, and laboratories. Only the laboratory cluster, consisting of two parallel blocks enclosing a water garden, was built. The two laboratory blocks frame a long view of the Pacific Ocean, accentuated by a thin linear fountain that seems to reach for the horizon. It has been named "arguably the defining work" of Kahn.<ref>{{cite journal| first=Marvin| last=Trachtenberg| date=September 1, 2016| url=http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/11881-records-top-125-buildings-51-75| title=RECORD's Top 125 Buildings: 51–75: Salk Institute| journal=[[Architectural Record]]}}</ref>
* [[First Unitarian Church of Rochester (building)|First Unitarian Church]], Rochester, New York (1959–1969), named as one of the greatest religious structures of the twentieth century by [[Paul Goldberger]], the [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning architectural critic.<ref>{{cite news| last=Goldberger| first=Paul| title=Housing for the Spirit| newspaper=The New York Times| date=December 26, 1982| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/26/books/housing-for-the-spirit.html}}</ref> Tall, narrow window recesses create an irregular rhythm of shadows on the exterior while four light towers flood the sanctuary walls with indirect, natural light.
* [[Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital]], Dhaka, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh)
* [[IIM Ahmedabad|Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad]], in [[Ahmedabad]], India (1961)
* [[Eleanor Donnelly Erdman Hall]], Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania (1960–1965), designed as a modern Scottish castle.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.brynmawr.edu/residentiallife/floorplans/erdman.shtml |title=Erdman Hall |access-date=October 23, 2017 |url-status=dead |website=Bryn Mawr College |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171023064013/http://www.brynmawr.edu/residentiallife/floorplans/erdman.shtml |archive-date=October 23, 2017 }}</ref>
* [[Phillips Exeter Academy Library]], Exeter, New Hampshire (1965–1972), awarded the [[Twenty-five Year Award]] by the [[American Institute of Architects]] in 1997. Its dramatic atrium features enormous circular openings into the book stacks.
* [[Kimbell Art Museum]], Fort Worth, Texas (1967–1972), features repeated bays of cycloid-shaped barrel vaults with light slits along the apex, which bathe the artwork on display in an ever-changing diffuse light.
* [[Arts United Center]], Fort Wayne, Indiana (1973), The only building realized of a ten-building Arts Campus vision, Kahn's only theatre and building in the Midwest
* [[Hurva Synagogue]], Jerusalem, Israel, (1968–1974), unbuilt
* [[Yale Center for British Art]], Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (1969–1974)
* [[Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park]], Roosevelt Island, New York (1972–1974), construction completed 2012
* [[Jatiyo Sangshad Bhaban]] (National Assembly Building) in Dhaka, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) was Kahn's last project, developed 1962 to 1974. Kahn got the design contract with the help of [[Muzharul Islam]], one of his students at [[Yale University]], who worked with him on the project. The Bangladeshi Parliament building is the centerpiece of the national capital complex designed by Kahn, which includes hostels, dining halls, and a hospital. According to Robert McCarter, author of ''Louis I. Kahn'', "it is one of the twentieth century's greatest architectural monuments, and is without question Kahn's magnum opus."<ref name="mccarter">{{cite book |title=Louis I. Kahn |last=McCarter |first=Robert |year=2005 |publisher=[[Phaidon Press]] |location=London |isbn=978-0714849713 |page=258,270}}</ref>