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ID: 500027669 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500027669			Record Type: Person

Kahn, Louis I. (Russian-American architect and city planner, 1901-1974)

Note: Born 20 February 1901; died 17 March 1974. Moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1905, naturalized in 1915.

Names:
	Kahn, Louis Isidore (preferred,V,index)
	Louis Isidore Kahn (V,display)
	Kahn, Louis (V,Dutch-P,NA)
	Kahn, Louis I. (V,LC,English-P,NA,U)
	Kahn, Louis Isadore (V)
	Louis I. Kahn (V)
	קאהן, לואיס (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)

Nationalities:
	American (preferred)
	Russian

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	architect
	urban planner
	teacher

Gender: male


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: Saaremaa (Saaremaa, Estonia) (island)

Events:

naturalization:

1915 United States (North and Central America) (nation)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

associated with ....	Doshi, Balkrishna V. 1962-1972
............................	(Indian architect and designer, 1927-2023) [500034371]

employee was ....	Oberlander, Cornelia Hahn 1947-1951
......................	(German landscape architect, born 1921, active in the United States and Canada) [500033186]

employee was ....	Venturi, Robert
......................	(American architect, 1925-2018) [500018011]

founder of ....	Office of Louis I. Kahn
..................	(American architectural firm, established 1937, dissolved 1974) [500033226]

parent of ....	Kahn, Nathaniel
................	(American filmmaker and writer, born 1963) [500276617]

partner of ....	Tyng, Anne Griswold
..................	(American architect, 1920-2012) [500011255]

student of ....	Cret, Paul Philippe
..................	(American architect, 1876-1945) [500030249]

teacher of ....	Alexander, Peter
..................	(American painter and sculptor, 1939-2020) [500033110]

teacher of ....	Goldfinger, Myron
..................	(American architect, 1933-2023) [500099565]

teacher of ....	Huet, Bernard
..................	(French architect and theorist, 1932-2001) [500027109]

teacher of ....	Moore, Charles Willard
..................	(American architect, author, and educator, 1925-1993) [500021877]

teacher of ....	Polshek, James Stewart
..................	(American architect, born 1930) [500028545]

teacher of ....	Scott Brown, Denise 1958-1960
..................	(American architect, born 1931) [500006984]

teacher of ....	Smith, Lance
..................	(South African architect, born 1945) [500076041]

worked with ....	Kiley, Daniel Urban
....................	(American landscape architect, 1912-2004) [500022580]

worked with ....	Myers, Barton 1964-1966
....................	(Canadian and American architect, born 1934) [500017269]

worked with ....	Wisdom, David
....................	(American architect, 1906-1996) [500069507]

List/Hierarchical Position:

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Persons, Artists

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Kahn, Louis I. (I)

Biographies:

(Russian-American architect and city planner, 1901-1974) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American architect, 1901-1974) ..... [AVERY]
(American and Russian architect, city planner and painter born Island of Saarema (Estonia, Russia), now Island of Saarema (Estonia) 1901; died 1974) ..... [CCA]
(American architect, 1901-1974) ..... [BHA]
(American architect, 1901-1974) ..... [AVERY]
(American architect) ..... [AVERY]
(American architect) ..... [AVERY]
(Russian architect, 1901-1974) ..... [AVERY]
(American architect, 1901-1974) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist, 1901-1974) ..... [GRL]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(American artist, born Estonia. 1901-1974) ..... [MoMA]
(American architect, 1901-1974) ..... [IMJ]
(American architect) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

קאהן, לואיס ........	[IMJ]
......................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database

Kahn, Louis ........	[AVERY, CCA, RKD Preferred]
........................	Avery Authority files (1963-)
........................	Canadian Centre for Architecture database
........................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 225401

Kahn, Louis I. ........	[AVERY Preferred, CCA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, IMJ Preferred, MoMA]
.............................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
.............................	Avery Authority files (1963-)
.............................	CCA Authority File (1980-)
.............................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
.............................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
.............................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database
.............................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 79022177

Kahn, Louis Isadore ........	[AVERY, CCA, Grove Art]
.......................................	Avery Authority files (1963-)
.......................................	Canadian Centre for Architecture database
.......................................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)

Kahn, Louis Isidore ........	[BHA Preferred]
.......................................	BHA, Authority file (1973-)

Louis I. Kahn ........	[AVERY, GRISC, GRL, MoMA Preferred, VP]
...........................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
...........................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
...........................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)

Louis Isidore Kahn ........	[VP]
.....................................	Canadian Centre for Architecture database


Note:
English	..........	[AVERY, CCA, VP]
	..........	Contemporary Architects [n.d.]
	..........	Who Was Who in America (1943-)

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