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The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects says, "Kahn sometimes perceived a building as enclosed by 'plate-walls,' and to give emphasis to this structural form, he interrupted the plates at the corner, leaving a gap between them. The Library at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire (1967–1972) is a classic example".
Additionally, he was the chairman of the Department of Architecture at Harvard University from 1980 to 1985. [2] He received honorary degrees from Bowdoin College and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. In 1983, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate
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.
Choosing Louis Kahn as architect. The section title could be more succinctly "Selecting an architect", otherwise please add "the" to the current; chosen to design the new library for Phillips Exeter Academy – to clarify after listing others; Don't think the second quote from Kahn describing books is necessary, but the first I think gives some ...
Phillips Exeter Academy (often called Exeter or PEA) is a independent, co-educational, college-preparatory school in Exeter, New Hampshire. Established in 1781, it is America's sixth-oldest boarding school. It educates roughly 1,100 boarding and day students in grades 9 through 12, as well as postgraduate students.
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Buildings designed by Louis Kahn (1901−1974) — an internationally renowned American Modernist architect. ... Phillips Exeter Academy Library; R.
Phillips Exeter Academy Library, Exeter, New Hampshire, USA, designed by Louis Kahn. Library of Downside Abbey, Somerset, UK, designed by Francis Pollen. City Theater of Tehran, Iran, designed by Ali Sardar Afkhami. Commerce Court West in Toronto, Ontario, Canada is completed and becomes the tallest building in the British Commonwealth (1972 ...