Louis I. Kahn BN_Top_100 "The authoritative Franklin biography for

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Louis I. Kahn BN_Top_100 "The authoritative Franklin biography forLouis Isadore Kahn (19011974) treated each building like a temple. Across the United States, in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Israel, his designs combined the sleek, utilitarian surfaces of modernism with a devotion to geometric forms and a reverence for natural light that suffused his stuctures with a monumental and breathtaking spirituality. This essential introduction brings together 17 of Kahns most important buildings across his cultural,