Louis Kahn - Jenkintown, PA
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N 40° 04.559 W 075° 05.647
18T E 491974 N 4436195
Grave of Louis Kahn, who, at the time of his death in 1974, was considered “America’s foremost living architect.”
Waymark Code: WM171GZ
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 11/20/2022
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Louis Kahn was born into a rather poor Jewish family in what is now the country of Estonia but at that time was part of the Russian Empire. He emigrated to the United States with his family at a very early age and grew up in Philadelphia. Kahn exceled as an artist during his youth but chose to pursue architecture after taking a special course as a high school senior.
After college, Kahn began his career by working for the City of Philadelphia followed by employment with a couple of architectural firms before forming his own associations. He didn’t develop his own distinctive style, monumental spaces with lots of unfinished concrete and bold geometric forms, until the 1950s when he was in his 50s. His most notable designs were the Yale University Art Gallery (new wing), the Salk Institute in San Diego, the Exeter Academy library in New Hampshire, the National Assembly Building in Dhaka, Bangladesh and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park in New York City.
Louis Kahn died at the age of 73 when he suffered a heart attack at New York’s Penn Station. He was laid to rest at the Montefiore Cemetery in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania just outside Philadelphia.
(Source: wikipedia.org, archdaily.com)
Description:
See Long Description above.
Date of birth: 02/20/1901
Date of death: 03/17/1974
Area of notoriety: Other
Marker Type: Headstone
Setting: Outdoor
Visiting Hours/Restrictions: none
Fee required?: No
Web site: [Web Link]
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