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Classical Kahn

They say, “never meet your heroes.” I met my hero, albeit in the form of a piece of architecture, and it was…bittersweet. The Salk Institute for Biological Studies by Louis Kahn has sat at #1 on my list of buildings to see in America for the last three or so years. I was recently fortunate […]

Tadao Ando – Pulitzer Arts Foundation

In hindsight, it seems extreme to drive nearly 500 miles to see a building as simple as this one, but here we are. Granted, I stopped to see much more than this one building, but it was certainly worth the distance. The Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis is the second (completed) project I’ve experienced […]

Louis Kahn – Arts United Center

This post is the first stop of a recent three day trip I made through the Midwest to see some work by a few of my favorite architects. Here we have Louis Kahn’s only work in the region, the Arts United Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana.  It is the only structure that was actually built […]