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A

  • Abele, Julian Francis
  • Adam, Robert
  • Alikakos, George C.
  • Allen, William Steven, Jr.
  • Audsley, George Ashdown

B

  • Bacon, Edmund Norwood
  • Baker & Dallett
  • Ballinger Company
  • Batcheler, Penelope Hartshorne
  • Bendiner, Alfred
  • Bernheimer, Betty Ray
  • Bitter, Karl Theodore Francis
  • Blount, Gilbert R.
  • Bower, John Arnold, Sr.
  • Bronx Parkway Commission
  • Buchman & Kahn
  • Butterfield, William

C

  • Canton Christian College
  • Carroll, Grisdale & Van Alen
  • Caumette, François
  • Cautley, Marjorie Sewell
  • Chambers, Sir William
  • Chandler, Theophilus Parsons, Jr.
  • Clemmer, Leon
  • Coccetti, Pietro Paolo
  • Cole, E.B.
  • Colish, Aaron
  • Conklin, George W.
  • Cope & Lippincott
  • Cope & Stewardson
  • Copeland, Lee G.
  • Cret - Clippings
  • Cret, Paul Philippe

D

  • Daub, George
  • Day & Klauder
  • Day, Frank Miles
  • Day, Kenneth Mackenzie
  • Day, Norman
  • Debret, François
  • DiNardo, Antonio
  • Donohoe, Victoria
  • Doshi, Balkrishna Vithaldas
  • Drake, Lawrence
  • Dumont, Jacques
  • Durfee, William Franklin

E

  • Eberson, John
  • Ellett, Thomas Harlan
  • Evans, Allen
  • Evans, John Lane
  • Eyre, Wilson, Jr.

F

  • Falck, Dyer Alfred Lindsay
  • Ferriss, Hugh
  • Feustmann, Maurice Mayer
  • Fielding, Mantle
  • Frascari, Marco
  • Fredenthal, Robinson
  • Fuller, R. Buckminster
  • Furness - Arcade Building
  • Furness - Girard Trust Building
  • Furness - University of Pennsylvania Library
  • Furness - Wilmington Station

G

  • Geddes, Brecher, Qualls & Cunningham
  • Geerlings, Gerald Kenneth
  • Gilchrist, Edmund Beaman
  • Goldberg, Steven
  • Gray, Eileen
  • Gréber, Jacques
  • Grisdale, John Thomas
  • Guise, David
  • Gutkind, Erwin Anton

H

  • Halprin, Lawrence
  • Hanna, Robert Mitchell
  • Harris, Britton
  • Hassinger, Herman
  • Hirzel, Charles Koch
  • Hood, Raymond Mathewson
  • Hough, Charles Shoemaker
  • Hough, William Jarrett Hallowell
  • Hutton, Addison

I

  • Isham, Norman Morrison
  • Isthmian Canal Commission

J

  • Johansen, John MacLane

K

  • Kahn - Bernie Cleff
  • Kahn - Campidoglio Drawing
  • Kahn - Esther Kahn
  • Kahn - Fanny Seligman
  • Kahn - First Unitarian Church
  • Kahn - Fisher House
  • Kahn - James F. Williamson
  • Kahn - Kimbell Art Museum
  • Kahn - Mildred Schmertz
  • Kahn - Richard Saul Wurmann
  • Kahn - Sue Ann Kahn
  • Kahn - Swetik Korzeniewski
  • Kahn, Louis I.
  • Kieran Timberlake
  • Klauder - Woodrow Wilson House
  • Kling - Nicholson House
  • Knowles, Brigitte L. & John Christopher
  • Knowles, James Thomas, Sr.
  • Kohn Pederson Fox - Shanghai Tower
  • Komendant, August E.
  • Koyl, George Simpson
  • Kreier, George J. Jr.

L

  • La France, Rollin R.
  • Laird, Warren Powers
  • Lawrie, Lee O.
  • Lawson, John & Lorna Katz-Lawson
  • Le Corbusier - Lecture Sketches
  • Le Ricolais, Georges Robert
  • Leavitt, David L.
  • Levinson, Joel
  • Lewis, George Mifflin Dallas
  • Lloyd, John Frederick
  • Lobell, Mimi
  • Longstreth, Thaddeus

M

  • Mansell, T. Norman
  • Martin, Stewart, Noble & Class
  • McGoodwin, Robert Rodes
  • McHarg, Ian L.
  • Mellor, Meigs & Howe
  • Mendham, John Bernard
  • Mertins, Detlef
  • Mesnard, Jules-Auguste
  • Meyers, Marshall David
  • Michener - Le Corbusier Sketches
  • Mitchell/Giurgola - New York Office
  • Mitchell/Giurgola - Philadelphia Office
  • Montgomery & Bishop
  • Moore, Charles
  • Myers, Hyman and Sandra

N

  • Nakashima - Shahn House
  • Nelson, Paul Daniel
  • Nesfield & Shaw
  • Nicholais, John
  • Nichols, Minerva Parker
  • Nolen, John

O

  • Oakes, Earle D.
  • Oakley, Thornton
  • Okie, Richardson Brognard
  • Olin, Laurie
  • Oshiver, Samuel Israel

P

  • Panfili, Pio
  • Pattison, Harriet
  • Patton, George Erwin
  • Peabody & Stearns - Biddle Residence
  • Peck, Frederick William Gunster
  • Perkins, George Holmes
  • Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
  • Philadelphia City Hall
  • Philadelphia City Planning Commission
  • Pohl, George
  • Polk, David C.S.
  • Price, Beryl
  • Price, Llewellyn R.
  • Price, William L.

R

  • Raje, Anant D.
  • Rapkin, Chester
  • Raymond - Carson House
  • Raymond - Masanori Sugiyama
  • Raymond - Stone House
  • Raymond, Antonin and Noémi Pernessin
  • Register, Henry Bartol
  • Reinhold - Buchanan Residence
  • Renard, Jean Augustin
  • Rhodes, William and Sally
  • Rice, Norman
  • Richards, Thomas Webb
  • Robertson, Daniel
  • Romañach, Mario Jose

S

  • Sandby, Thomas
  • Sauer, Louis
  • Savery, Scheetz & Gilmour
  • Scarpa, Carlo
  • Schlesinger, Frank
  • Schmertz, Mildred
  • Seeler, Edgar Viguers
  • Shay, Howell Lewis
  • Shepheard, Sir Peter Faulkner
  • Silverman & Levy - S.S. Neuman Residence
  • Society Hill
  • Stanton, William Macy
  • Sternfeld, Harry
  • Stonorov, Oskar Gregory
  • Stupplebeem, David

T

  • Teitelman, Edward Albert
  • Thalheimer, Jack
  • Thomas, Marianna
  • Thomas, Martin & Kirkpatrick
  • Tilden, Register & Pepper
  • Todd, Thomas A.
  • Traymore Hotel
  • Trumbauer - Wasserman House
  • Tyng, Anne Griswold

U

  • Ueland & Junker
  • University of Pennsylvania - Buildings and Grounds
  • University of Pennsylvania - Bulletin
  • University of Pennsylvania - Comparative Study of Philadelphia Rowhouses
  • University of Pennsylvania - GSFA Chinese Students
  • University of Pennsylvania - Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning
  • University of Pennsylvania - Morris Arboretum

V

  • Van Rooten, Luis d'Antin
  • Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates
  • Vermont Marble Company
  • Villain, Edouard-Auguste
  • Vollmer, Roy

v

  • vanden Heuvel, William

W

  • Watson & Huckel
  • Weinbrenner, Friedrich
  • Weise, Frank
  • White Tower
  • White, Arthur Blose
  • White, Stanford
  • Wilcots, Henry
  • Willing, Charles
  • Winslow, Philip N.
  • Withers, Frederick Clarke
  • Woolmington, Clarence Hassard
  • Wormann, Hans Norbert
  • Wright - Publicker House
  • Wyatt, Lewis William
  • Wyatt, Thomas Henry

Y

  • Yang, Ting Pao
  • Yarnall, Richard Ashbridge
  • Yellin, Samuel
  • Yoshiko, Godai

Z

  • Zahn - Roberto Burle Marx
  • Zantzinger, Borie & Medary
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Kahn, Louis I.

Louis I. Kahn Collection (030), Architect, 1909-1974

Louis I. Kahn was born in Estonia and raised in Philadelphia.  He was trained in architecture in the Beaux-Arts tradition at the University of Pennsylvania under Paul Philippe Cret.  As a mature architect, Kahn was distinguished from his contemporaries (in a period dominated by the International Style) by his unique personal philosophy of architecture and a style marked by a profound sense of history and pure geometry in design and the texture of materials in construction.  His legacy is as much in his teaching and his unbuilt designs as in his major built works.  He lectured and wrote on architecture beginning in the 1930s.  He taught at Yale University (1947-1955) and was Cret Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania from 1956 until his death.

Kahn's major built works include: Yale University Art Gallery; Alfred Newton Richards Medical Research Building, University of Pennsylvania; Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California; First Unitarian Church and School, Rochester, New York; Performing Arts Theater, Fort Wayne, Indiana; Eleanor Donnelley Erdman Hall, Bryn Mawr College; Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India; Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Library, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; Yale Center for British Art.

When Kahn died unexpectedly of a heart attack in 1974, two of his most important works, the Yale Center for British Art and the national capital of Bangladesh at Dhaka, were still under construction. After his death, his office was closed, but his former associates completed, when possible, the projects under construction. 

The Louis I. Kahn Collections comprise the entire professional archive of Louis I. Kahn, with the addition of personal materials.  After Kahn's death, his estate faced substantial financial obligations, and the decision was made to liquidate the assets of the firm.  The entire archive was purchased in 1976 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania under the auspices of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) and was placed on permanent loan to the University of Pennsylvania the following year.  The trustees of the University assumed responsibility for making the collection available for scholarly research, exhibit and publishing.  After the projects still under construction at Kahn's death were brought to completion, documentation for those projects was donated to the Architectural Archives by Kahn's former associates.  Personal materials were donated to the Architectural Archives by family and friends.  Additional materials continue to be received. 

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