Kahn

Description

There have been very few moments in the history of architecture when a single building has signaled a shift in the future direction of the discipline. Louis I. Kahn’s 1951- 1953 Yale University Art Gallery addition achieved that status by marking the arrival of monumentality in American modern arcithecture. To better understand how Kahn’s Yale University Art Gallery addition became such a pivotal building in his career, as well as in architectural history, one needs to look at the context in which architecture had evolved by mid-century in America. The legacy of Kahn’s ideology places him in the inventive category, making him one of the most important American architects of the twentieth cetury since Frank Lloyd Wright.