Facing a student questioner at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology shortly before his death in 1974, the great architect Louis I. Kahn belittled his own achievement. Noting that he began his ...

When the architect Louis I. Kahn collapsed and died in the men’s room of Penn Station in 1974, he left behind many things. There were buildings of monumental importance and vision, like the Salk ...

A quietly moving documentary that superbly balances personal reflection with career assessment, Nathaniel Kahn's "My Architect" represents the filmmaker's quest to understand and appreciate the work ...

ALTHOUGH Louis Kahn is considered one of this country's finest 20th-century architects, when he died in 1974 he was bankrupt and had built only a few major projects. In fact, Kahn left behind almost ...

This article was originally published on August 27, 2017. To read the stories behind other celebrated architecture projects, visit our AD Classics section. In 1959, Jonas Salk, the man who had ...