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Contents 1 Article needs more research 2 Birthdate 3 Surname 4 Modern architect 5 3 wives 6 Birthplace

[edit] Article needs more research

Louis Kahn is EXTREMELY famous in the architecture world, and this article doesn't do him justice. It would be nice if someone could do more research and expand this article.

Is he related to the architect of the Detroit area, Albert Kahn? Rmhermen 18:06, Aug 20, 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Birthdate

According to the biographical documentary My Architect, Louis Kahn told his son he was not sure if he was born in 1901 or 1902. I'll change the article to reflect that. --Wechselstrom 04:31, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

It looks a bit awkward in its current state... I'm editing into a more legible form. Blahm 14:33, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Surname

I added a part about his original surname, which his son mentions in My Architect. Also, he was not related to Albert Kahn, since they were born with diferent surnames.

[edit] Modern architect

I see no links to the category Modern architecture. I will put them in, hopefully to no objection. It is a shame to have him out of that list. He many not be Internatianl Style but was certainly modern.Brosi 01:31, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

He's really Mid-Century modern. Lentower 02:28, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 3 wives

...I just beefed up the opening paragraph and some of the entries in the noted works section.

Personally I think the stuff about his women should be under the "Life" section not the "Legacy" section. I don't want to white-wash, just think it fits better under that heading. The "Legacy" section needs work. What's the deal with the grant to "document the structuralist movement in architecture and architectural education?" The structuralist architecture of Leon Krier and Herman Hertzberger came about after Kahn died. The structural anthropoolgy of Levi-Strauss was trendy in architectural theory for a while, but Kahn was a poet not a theorist. Someone fill me in. Also It should be clearer that it was Kahn's unbuilt work that influenced Piano and Foster. A photo of the model for Philadephia City Hall would do a lot to clear that up.

Mirror dash shade 09:42, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

I completely agree - no idea about the grant to document the structuralists - the entire article needs a good going over and sources cited for statements such as that.--Joopercoopers 10:02, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

...well... must repeat... no implication of white-washing... just since the article has grown so much, this might deserve its own heading? maybe? comments?

i dont know that there might not be a link between kahn and structural athropology -- Notes from Volume Zero: Louis Kahn and the Language of God

...but most of the material i looked at showed what i hacked together/summarized here. comment s welcome...

...LOL! Mirror dash shade (talk) 15:40, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Birthplace

According to this article http://www.commentarymagazine.com/cm/main/viewArticle.html?id=10910 He was indeed born in 1901, the son of a Jewish paymaster in the czarist army—but not on the Baltic island of Saaremaa as he claimed but in the somewhat less romantic venue of the Latvian mainland. Nor was he born Louis Kahn but rather LeiserItze Schmuilowsky, an evidently embarrassing name, unknown until recently, that was changed in 1915, a decade after the family’s emigration to Philadelphia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.48.6.11 (talk) 15:55, 21 September 2007 (UTC)