Louis Kahn ca. 1972 © Robert C. Lautman Photography Collection, National Building Museum.

March 28,2015- July 5,2015

Venue:Galleries E F

at Taipei Fine Arts Museum

The exhibition Louis Kahn — The Power of Architecture is the first major retrospective of Kahn’s work in two decades. The exhibition encompasses an unprecedented and diverse range of architectural models, original drawings, photographs and films. All of Kahn’s important projects are extensively documented — from his early urban planning concepts and single-family houses to monumental late works such as the Roosevelt Memorial in New York City (1973/74), posthumously completed in October 2012.

The view of Kahn’s architectural oeuvre is augmented by a selection of watercolours, pastels and charcoal drawings created during his travels, which document his skill as an artist and illustrator. Highlights of the exhibition include a four-meter-high model of the spectacular City Tower designed for Philadelphia, as well as previously unpublished film footage shot by Nathanial Kahn, the son of Louis Kahn and director of the film ‘My Architect’. Interviews with architects such as Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, Peter Zumthor and Sou Fujimoto underscore the current significance of Kahn’s work, which is being rediscovered and made accessible to a wide public audience with this exhibition.....Continue Reading

Louis Kahn in front of a model of the City Tower Project in an exhibition at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 1958 © Sue Ann Kahn.

Louis Kahn | Steven and Toby Korman House, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania 1971-73 © Barry Halkin

Louis Kahn | Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut 1951–53 © Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, photo: Lionel Freedman.

Louis Kahn | Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut 1951-53 © Elizabeth Felicella Yale University

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