Louis I. Kahn

Born in Estonia in 1901, Louis Isidore Kahn became one of the United States' most important architects of the post-war period, in the company of such modern masters as Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, and Le Corbusier. Although Kahn was renowned for a number of seminal modern works, he came to question many of the precepts of the Modern movement; in particular, he questioned the ability of the International Style of Modernism to house the social spaces required by the latter half of the cen…