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…[+]