Kahn’s Oeuvre, Twenty Years Later
The Emperor of Light
28/02/1993
![La obra de Kahn, veinte años después](/assets/uploads/articulos/77295/av_medium__av_219854.webp?h=28d33a1c)
Perhaps Louis Kahn’s most daring accomplishment was wresting American architecture from the bland conformity that International Style had condemned it to. As Martin Filler explains in the following run-through of the life and work of the master from Philadelphia - written in line with a traveling exhibition that coincides with the twentieth anniversary of his death - it was his tenacious will to give back architecture its past nobility and monumentality that helped him set the ground for a rethinking out of contemporary architecture…[+]