Kahn was the ultimate architect's architect. A new retrospective aims to expose his legacy--still a work in progress--to a broader audience.
Louis Kahn is an architect's architect. At the time of his death in 1974, he was "America's foremost living architect," according to his New York Times obituary, a master builder whose relatively small body of work nonetheless proved influential to the work of architects like Renzo Piano and Frank Gehry.