H
Haaf, John
Halprin, Lawrence
Hanks, Nancy
Harnwell, Gaylord
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Harvard University
Hatboro, Pennsylvania
Hauf, Harold
Haussmann, Baron
Heilman, Larry
Helsinki
Hersey, John
Hinduism
Hirschberg, Sara and Leib
Holland
Holocaust
Howe, George
Howe & Kahn
Howe, Stonorov & Kahn
Hungary
Hurva Synagogue; conception of
Huxtable, Ada Louise
I
Ibsen, Henrik
Île de France, S.S.
India
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad; arches; classroom wing; conception of; construction of; dorms; experience of; materials; plaza; Vikram Sarabhai Library
Institute of Personality Assessment and Research, University of California at Berkeley
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
International Style
interstitial floors
Iran
Islam. See also mosque
Islam, Mazharul
Islam, Moinul
Islamabad
Israel
Israeli, Annie
Israeli, Samuel
Italy
J
Japan
Jelinek, Sydney
Jersey Homesteads
Jerusalem
Jerusalem Committee
Jewish Community Center. See Trenton Jewish Community Center
Jews
Johnson, Philip
K
Kaaba
Kahn, Alan
Kahn, Bertha
Kahn, Eleanor
Kahn, Esther Israeli
Kahn, Jeff
Kahn, Lauren
Kahn, Leopold
Kahn, Louis I., artwork by; Black and White; A Coming Storm; Danube Country; Esther/Olivia; Esther/Olivia, No. 3; Esther in Pink; In the Cabin, No. 2; Nude in a Doorway; Olivia; Olivia with a Grape; Street in a Coastal Village; The White Church
Kahn, Louis I., buildings designed by: Dominican Motherhouse; Erdman Hall; Esherick House; FDR Four Freedoms Park; First Unitarian Church in Rochester; Fisher House; Hurva Synagogue; Indian Institute of Management; Kimbell Art Museum; Korman House; Mikveh Israel Synagogue; National Assembly Building of Bangladesh; Palazzo dei Congressi; Phillips Exeter Dining Hall; Phillips Exeter Library; Richards Medical Building; Salk Institute for Biological Studies; Shapiro House; Trenton Bath House; Weiss House; Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery. See also specific buildings
Kahn, Nathaniel; My Architect
Kahn, Oscar
Kahn, Rhoda. See Kantor, Rhoda Kahn
Kahn, Rosella
Kahn, Sarah. See Freedman, Sarah Kahn
Kahn, Sue Ann
Kahn (Louis I.) Collection
Kansas City, Missouri
Kantor, Julian
Kantor, Marvin
Kantor, Rebecca Tyng
Kantor, Rhoda Kahn
Kantor, Steven
Karachi
Kastner, Alfred
Keast & Hood
Khan, Ayub
Kiley, Dan
Kimbell, Kay
Kimbell Art Museum; completion and dedication ceremony; conception of; concrete vault ceiling; construction of; courtyards; entrance; experience of; materials; public galleries; site additions
Kollek, Teddy
Komendant, August; Kimbell Art Museum project; National Assembly project; Richards Building project; Salk Institute project
Kopelan, Solis Daniel
Korean War
Korman, Steven and Toby
Korman House
Kramer, Piet
Kreeger, David
Kremlin
Kuo, General Pehchuam
Kuo, Joe
Kuo, Marie
Kuressaare; 2006 celebration of Kahn. See also Arensburg
Kuwait
L
Lake Placid
Lalbhai, Kasturbhai
Langford, Fred; Kimbell Art Museum project; National Assembly project; Salk Institute project
Langford, Gus
Larimer, Reyhan
Larson, Kent; Louis I. Kahn: Unbuilt Masterworks
Latvia
Lee, Eric
Lee, William H.
Lemke, Greg
Leningrad
Lenin Memorial
Le Ricolais, Robert
Lescaze, William
Leslie, Thomas
Libby-Owens-Ford glass company
Lithuania
Liverpool
Livonia
Logue, Ed
London
Los Angeles
M
MacAllister, Jack; Salk Institute project
MacKinnon, Donald W.
Macomber, George
Madden, Charles
Maillol, Aristide; L’Air
March of Dimes
Maryland Institute College of Art
Matisse, Henri, Bathers by a River
McAllister, Louis E.
McCarter, Robert
McCarthyism
McFadden, Monsignor John
McMichael, Catherine
Mecca
Media, Pennsylvania
Meier, Raymond
Mellon, Paul
Memorial to the Six Million Jewish Martyrs
Mendelowitsch, Abram
Mendelowitsch, Beila-Rebeckah. See Kahn, Bertha
Mendelowitsch, Isak
Mendelowitsch, Mendel
Mendelowitsch, Rocha-Lea
Mendelowitsch, Sora-Gita. See Hirschberg, Sara
Menil Collection
Merion, S.S.
Mexico
Meyers, Anne
Meyers, Marshall; Kahn and; Kimbell Art Museum project
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
Mikveh Israel synagogue
Milan
Mill Creek Project
Miller, Henry
Milosz, Czeslaw
MIT; Kahn’s teaching at; School of Architecture and Planning
Mitchell/Giurgola
Mock, Rudolf
modernism
Molitor, John
Montgomery, Sally
“Monumentality” (essay)
mosque
Moscow
Moye, Gary
Munich
Museum of Modern Art, New York; Art in Our Time (1939); Built in the USA (1944); Richards Medical Building exhibition (1961)
My Architect (film)
N
Naples
National Assembly Building of Bangladesh; assembly hall; completion of; conception of; construction of; entrance; experience of; lighting effects; marble stripes; materials; mosque
National Endowment for the Arts
National Institute of Design
neoclassicism
Nervi, Pier Luigi
Netherlands
Neutra, Richard
New Deal
New Haven
New York City
New York Times; Kahn obituary
Niagara Falls
Niemeyer, Oscar
Nixon, Richard
Noguchi, Isamu
Northern Liberties
Nova Scotia
O
O’Connor, Basil
Oliver Bair Funeral Home, Philadelphia
Olivetti-Underwood typewriter factory
Olson, Don
194X
Ormandy, Eugene
Ösel. See also Saaremaa
Oser, Jesse
Oser, Ruth
Oser House
Ostberg, Ragnar
Ostia Antica
P
Paestum
Pakistan
Pakis
tan Public Works Department
Palazzo dei Congressi, Venice; conception of
Palladio, Andrea
Palmbaum, Harry
Pantheon
Paris
Paris Opera
Paris Prize
Pärnu. See Pernau
Parthenon
Paterson, Jamie
Paterson, Marie Kuo. See Kuo, Marie
Paterson, Morton
Pattison, Abbott Lawrence; Kneeling Woman
Pattison, Bonnie
Pattison, Harriet; as landscape architect
Pattison, William
Patton, George
Pei, I. M.
Pellecchia & Meyers
Penn Center
Penn Station, New York City
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Pennsylvania Railroad
Performing Arts Theater, Fort Wayne
Perkins, G. Holmes
Pernau
Perry, Bill
Perspecta
Pesti, Olavi
Philadelphia; housing and slum clearance
Philadelphia Award
Philadelphia City Planning Commission
Philadelphia Housing Authority
Philadelphia Inquirer; Kahn obituary
Philadelphia Psychiatric Hospital; Pincus Pavilion; Radbill Building
Philadelphia Savings Fund Building
Philadelphia School of Architecture
Phillips Exeter Dining Hall
Phillips Exeter Library; arcade; atrium; carrels; completion of; conception of; construction of; entrance; experience of; four-story plan; geometry; materials; modern use of; staircase
Piano, Renzo
Picasso, Pablo
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista
Polk, David
Pollara, Gina
Pompeii
Poplar Cinema
postmodernism
Prague
Pratt Institute
Princeton University; Kahn’s teaching at
Progressive Architecture
Progressivism
Prometheus myth
Protestantism
Prown, Jules
Public Buildings Administration
Public Industrial Art School
Pyramids
R
Rahman, Sheikh Mujibar
Raje, Anant
Rand, Ayn, The Fountainhead
Rape of Nanking
Red Army
Renaissance
Resettlement Administration
Revere Copper and Brass company
Rice, Norman
Rice University
Richards, Ed
Richards Medical Building; completion of; conception of; MoMA exhibition; precast concrete; Vierendeel trusses
Riga; Central Market
Rivera, Luis Vincent
Roche, Kevin
Roche House
Rochester Unitarian Church. See First Unitarian Church, Rochester
Rodin, Auguste
Romanticism
Rome
“The Room, The Street, and Human Agreement” (lecture)
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, New Jersey
Roosevelt Island; FDR Four Freedoms Park
Rothstein, David
Royal Institute of British Architects; Gold Medal
Rudolph, Paul
Ruskin, John
Russell, Ona
Russia
Russian Revolution
Russo-Japanese War
S
Saaremaa. See also Ösel
Saarinen, Eero
Saarinen, Eliel
Safdie, Moshe
Salk, Jonas; Kahn and
Salk Institute for Biological Studies; conception of; construction of; experience of; folded plate scheme; interstitial floors; lab buildings; maintenance wing; materials; Meeting House; plaza; site additions; study towers; tie-holes; Vierendeel trusses
Saltzman, Harry
San Diego
Sarabhai, Vikram
Sarkej Roza
“Sawtooth Houses”
Sawyer, Charles
Scandinavia
Scanlon, Gail
Scarpa, Carlo
Schlosser, Galen
Schmulowsky, Leib (Leopold). See Kahn, Leopold
Scully, Vincent; Louis I. Kahn
Sert, José Luis
Sesquicentennial International Exposition (1926)
Shackelford, George
shadow joint
Shahn, Ben
Shapiro, Norma and Bernard
Shapiro House
Sher-e-Bangla Nagar
Sherman, Jay
Sherman, Kit
Sidi Saiyyed
Slovic, David
Soane, Sir John
Social Realism
Social Security Act
Socrates
Solomon, Susan
Sonck, Lars
Soopper, Morris
Soopper, Regina Israeli
Speer, Albert
Speisman, Joseph
Spencer, Herbert
Spohn, Penrose
Spruce Street office
Staal, J. F.
Stein, Gertrude
Stevens, Wallace; “Architecture”
Stockholm
Stone, Edward Durrell
Stonehenge
Stonorov, Oscar
Stonorov & Kahn
Stubbs, George, Lion Attacking a Horse
Sweden
Szalontay, Gabor. See Gabor
T
Tadd, J. Liberty; New Methods of Education
Tagore, Rabindranath
Tagore Society
Taine, Hippolyte
Taj Mahal
Tallinn
Tange, Kenzo
Tehran
Tel Aviv
Temple Beth-El. See also Beth-El synagogue, Chappaqua
Temple University
Thermofax sales office
Thiel, Philip
30th Street Station, Philadelphia
Tigerman, Stanley
Time magazine
Toledo Blade
Traines, Leonard
Trajan’s Market
Transcendentalism
Trenton Bath House; conception of; light joints; materials; Tyng collaboration on
Trenton Jewish Community Center
Triangle Redevelopment Plan
T-Square Club
20th Street office
Tyng, Alexandra; Beginnings: Louis I. Kahn’s Philosophy of Architecture
Tyng, Anne; collaboration with Kahn
Tyng Toy
U
UNESCO
Unitarian Church. See First Unitarian Church, Rochester
Unitarianism
United Nations
U.S. Department of Justice
U.S. Housing Authority; Information Services Division; Rational City Plan
Unity House
University of California, Berkeley; creativity study
University of Pennsylvania; Biology Services Building; Kahn’s teaching at; Richards Medical Building; School of Architecture; School of Fine Arts
Urban Development Corporation
USAID
Utopianism
V
Vallhonrat, Carles Enrique
“The Value and Aim of Sketching” (article)
vanden Heuvel, William
Van Eyck, Aldo
Venice
Venturi, Denise. See Brown, Denise Scott
Venturi, Robert
Vermeer, Jan
Vidal, Dr.
Vienna
Vierendeel trusses
Villamil, Rafael
Vreeland, Tim
W
Walnut Street office
Wanamaker Prize
Wares, Shamsul
Washington, D.C.
Washington University Library
Weiss, Morton and Lenore
Weiss House; fireplace; shadow jo
int
West Pakistan
Wheaton College Art Center
White, Duncan
Why City Planning Is Your Responsibility (pamphlet)
Wilcots, Henry; Kahn and; National Assembly project
Williams, C. K.
Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia
Wisdom, David; Kahn and
Wisdom (David) & Associates
World War I
World War II
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Wurman, Richard Saul
Wurster, William
Wyoming Grammar School
Y
Yale Center for British Art; atrium; completion of; conception of; construction of; Library Court; materials
Yale University; architecture department; Kahn’s teaching at
Yale University Art Gallery; completion of; conception of; construction of; critical response to; materials; refurbished; staircase; tetrahedral ceiling
Yale University Drama School
Yale University School of Fine Arts
You and Your Neighborhood (pamphlet)
Z
Zantzinger, Borie and Medary
Zantzinger, Clarence Clark
Zoob, David
Zucker, Paul, New Architecture and City Planning
Bertha Kahn as a young woman
(Anonymous photograph from the collection of Sue Ann Kahn)
Leopold Kahn as a young man
(Anonymous photograph from the collection of Sue Ann Kahn)
Arensburg Castle in about 1901
(Anonymous photograph from the Kuressaare Archives, Saaremaa, Estonia)
Louis and Sarah Kahn as small children in Estonia
(Anonymous photograph from the collection of Alexandra Tyng)
Bertha and Sarah Kahn in Philadelphia
(Anonymous photograph from the collection of Alexandra Tyng)
Oscar Kahn in his late twenties or early thirties
(Anonymous photograph from the collection of Rhoda Kantor)
Louis Kahn in his early thirties
(Anonymous photograph from the Esther Kahn Collection, The Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania)
Esther and Lou Kahn in Atlantic City, 1933
(Anonymous photograph from the collection of Sue Ann Kahn)
Lou at Brookwood Labor College, 1936
(Anonymous photograph from the collection of Sue Ann Kahn)
Self-Portrait with Pipe, 1928–29
(Drawing by Louis Kahn, from the collection of Sue Ann Kahn)
Lou’s portrait of Esther, 1931
(Drawing by Louis Kahn, from the collection of Sue Ann Kahn)
Lou’s portrait of Regina, 1930–34
(Drawing by Louis Kahn, from the Regina Soopper Collection, The Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania)
Olivia with a Grape, 1939
(Painting by Louis Kahn, from the collection of Olivia and Milton Abelson)
Lou, Esther, and Sue Ann Kahn in Atlantic City, 1947
(Anonymous photograph from the collection of Sue Ann Kahn)