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Keep cool: the concrete castles of Louis Kahn


Louis Kahn (1901–74) was an architect who designed buildings that looked like castles; this was true whether they were small Philadelphia villas or vast institutions such as his parliamentary complex in Dhaka. His style – which he arrived at only in his fifties – is characterised by what look like thick fortified walls of massive masonry pierced by simple geometrical shapes and sometimes topped with turrets, as if they have been designed by a necromancer or numerologist in the 13th or 14th century. The architectural historian Vincent Scully, an admirer, thought these buildings an intimation of divinity, and much writing about Kahn is overblown: ‘inventive power’, ‘personal discovery’, ‘fundamental geometry’ – that sort of thing. ....

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Saving Louis Kahn's modernist architecture at IIM Ahmedabad


Saving the modernist architecture of Louis Kahn’s IIM Ahmedabad dormitories
Saving the modernist architecture of Louis Kahn’s IIM Ahmedabad dormitories
Noor Dasmesh Singh (architect, urbanist and principal of award-winning NOOR Architects Consultants based in Chandigarh, India) discusses the threat posed to the dormitories at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and Louis Kahn’s modernist architecture
Louis Kahn was invited to design IIM-A in 1962
As a World Heritage preservation controversy brews, the administration at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad (IIM-A), just a short time ago, was set to proceed with its plans to raze 14 out of the 18 dormitories in Louis Kahn’s modernist architecture complex for the Indian school. A row kicked off as the design community and citizens initiated a campaign against the decision of the management. It got support from global organisations and individuals including Pritzker Prize laureates ....

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Louis Kahn-designed dorms in India may be razed


Matt Shaw, The New York Times
Published: 01 Jan 2021 01:57 PM BdST
Updated: 01 Jan 2021 01:57 PM BdST
Louis Kahn Plaza on the IIM Ahmedabad s Heritage Campus. (The Photography Club, IIM Ahmedabad/Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license)
A world-class architectural-preservation controversy is brewing in India, where the administration at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad had announced plans to raze 14 of 18 student dormitory buildings designed by architect Louis Kahn and built in the 1960s and 1970s.
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After a local and international outcry, an online meeting to begin seeking new bids for the demolition was cancelled.
Kahn, one of the most important American architects in history, is best known for masterworks like the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, and the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, as well as the Philips Exeter Academy Library in Exeter, New Hampshire, ....

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Outrage as IIM-A to raze iconic dorms designed by Louis Kahn


Outrage as IIM-A to raze iconic dorms designed by Louis Kahn
The new buildings are also expected to accommodate more students in place of the existing dorms, which can accommodate 500 students, the plan is to build 800 student rooms in a new hostel complex.
Updated: December 25, 2020 9:41:11 am
Designed by Louis Kahn on the old campus. (Express Photo: Nirmal Harindran)
A controversy has erupted over a decision by the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, to bring down 18 student dormitories built by legendary American architect Louis Kahn on the old campus also called “heritage campus” and replace them with new buildings.
The plan to replace the buildings, built in the 1960s, with new ones are on the ground that they have suffered structural damage over the years, including in the 2001 earthquake. The new buildings are also expected to accommodate more students in place of the existing dorms, which can accom ....

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