Louis Kahn was an American architect born in 1901 in Estonia and immigrated to the United States as a child. Some of his most notable works include the Salk Institute, Exeter Library, and the National Assembly Building in Bangladesh. The document discusses Kahn's design of the Indian Institute of Management campus in Ahmedabad, India from 1963, noting its use of brick walls and concrete slabs. It provides details on the layout and design of the library, classrooms, dormitories, and other buildings within the complex. The document also briefly mentions Kahn's National Assembly Building in Bangladesh.
Achyut prakash kanvinde
Born in 1916 in a small village on the konkan coast of Maharashtra.
Attended Sir.J.J.School of Architecture.
Indian government sent him to Harvard school of design in 1945.
Was a student of Walter Gropius in Harvard.
Gropius’s insistence for “using space as a tool for expressing universal human values” left a most lasting influence on Kanvinde’s mind
Amdavad ni Gufa is an underground art gallery in Ahmedabad, India. Designed by the architect Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi
Address: Opposite L.D Engineering, Gujarat University campus, CEPT campus, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380009
Architectural style: Modern architecture
Achyut prakash kanvinde
Born in 1916 in a small village on the konkan coast of Maharashtra.
Attended Sir.J.J.School of Architecture.
Indian government sent him to Harvard school of design in 1945.
Was a student of Walter Gropius in Harvard.
Gropius’s insistence for “using space as a tool for expressing universal human values” left a most lasting influence on Kanvinde’s mind
Amdavad ni Gufa is an underground art gallery in Ahmedabad, India. Designed by the architect Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi
Address: Opposite L.D Engineering, Gujarat University campus, CEPT campus, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380009
Architectural style: Modern architecture
Uttam Chand was born in 1934 in Melwara, Rajasthan. He completed his schooling at jodhpur Rajasthan. He graduated in architecture with I class honors in 1958 at Indian institute of technology, Kharagpur where he was a merit scholar throughout.
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Uttam Chand was born in 1934 in Melwara, Rajasthan. He completed his schooling at jodhpur Rajasthan. He graduated in architecture with I class honors in 1958 at Indian institute of technology, Kharagpur where he was a merit scholar throughout.
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Lawrence Wilfred "Laurie" Baker (2 March 1917 – 1 April 2007) was a British-born Indian architect, renowned for his initiatives in cost-effective energy-efficient architecture and designs that maximized space, ventilation and light and maintained an uncluttered yet striking aesthetic sensibility. Influenced by Mahatma Gandhi and his own experiences in the remote Himalayas, he promoted the revival of regional building practices and use of local materials; and combined this with a design philosophy that emphasized a responsible and prudent use of resources and energy. He was a pioneer of sustainable architecture as well as organic architecture, incorporating in his designs even in the late 1960s, concepts such as rain-water harvesting, minimizing usage of energy-inefficient building materials, minimizing damage to the building site and seamlessly merging with the surroundings. Due to his social and humanitarian efforts to bring architecture and design to the common man, his honest use of materials, his belief in simplicity in design and in life, and his staunch Quaker belief in non-violence, he has been called the "Gandhi of architecture".[1]
He moved to India in 1945 in part as an architect associated with a leprosy mission and continued to live and work in India for over 50 years. He became an Indian citizen in 1989 and resided in Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), Kerala from 1969 and served as the Director of COSTFORD (Centre of Science and Technology for Rural Development), an organisation to promote low-cost housing.Baker was born into a staunch Methodist family, the youngest son of Birmingham Gas Department's chief accountant, Charles Frederick Baker and Millie Baker. His early schooling was at King Edwards Grammar School. His elder brothers, Leonard and Norman studied law, and he had a sister, Edna who was the oldest of them all. In his teens Baker began to question what religion meant to him and decided to become a Quaker, since it was closer to what he believed in. Baker studied architecture at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham, and graduated in 1937, aged 20, in a period of political unrest in Europe.Throughout his practice, Baker developed a signature style in designing and building low cost, high quality, beautiful homes, with a great portion of his work suited to or built for lower-middle to lower class clients. He derived creatively from pre-existing local culture and building traditions while keeping his designs minimal with judicious and frugal use of resources.[13] [14] His buildings tend to emphasise prolific – at times virtuosic – masonry construction, instilling privacy and evoking history with brick jali walls, a perforated brick screen which invites a natural air flow to cool the buildings' interior, in addition to creating intricate patterns of light and shadow. Another significant Baker feature is irregular, pyramid-like structures on roofs, with one side left open and tilting into the wind. Baker's designs
Louis i kahn
Born February 20, 1901 on Saaremmaa Island in Kuressaare.
Kahn's Jewish parents immigrated to the United States in 1906.
His given name at birth was Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky but was changed upon arrival in the US.
Kahn's architecture is notable for its simple, platonic forms and compositions.
Through the use of brick and poured-in place concrete masonry, he developed a contemporary and monumental architecture that maintained a sympathy for the site.
While rooted in the International Style, Kahn's architecture was an amalgam of his Beaux Arts education and a personal aesthetic impulse to develop his own architectural forms.
Kahn received the AIA Gold Medal in 1971 and the RIBA Gold Medal in 1972.
Louis Kahn is considered one of the foremost architects of the late twentieth century.
On March 17, 1974, he died of a heart attack in a men's restroom in Pennsylvania Station in New York City.
Education/ Occupation
He attended the University of Pennsylvania and received his Bachelors degree in architecture at the age of 24.
After college, he worked as a senior draftsman in the office of Philadelphia City Architect John Molitor.
To find his inspiration, he traveled through Europe visiting castles and medieval strongholds in 1928, only 4 years after graduating.
He finally started his own firm in 1935.
While he still designed and worked as a design critic on the side, Louis became a professor of architecture at Yale school of Architecture.
Personal designs
Kahn created many unique an intricate buildings, but among his most memorable were…
* The Yale University Art gallery: 1951.
* The Jonas Salk institute for Biological Studies: 1965
* The Margaret Esherick house: 1961
* The National Assembly building: 1962
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2. Born February 20, 1901 on
Saaremmaa Island in Kuressaare.
Kahn's Jewish parents immigrated
to the United States in 1906.
His given name at birth was Itze-
Leib Schmuilowsky but was
changed upon arrival in the US.
Kahn worked as an
architect,drafstman,design
critic,professor and scholar.
On March 17, 1974, he died of a
heart attack.
4. • Kahn's architecture is notable for its simple, forms and
compositions.
• Kahn design of buildings, characterized by powerful, massive
forms.
• Through the use of brick and poured-in place concrete masonry,
he developed a contemporary and monumental architecture that
maintained sympathy for the site and did not loose its proportion.
• Louis Kahn's work infused International style with a highly
personal taste, poetry of light and exposing the materials without
altering.
5. • THE ROOM IS THE BEGINNING OF ARCHITECTURE
• THE PLAN IS A SOCIETY OF ROOMS
• A LONG STREET IS A SUCCESSION OF ROOMS.
• THE CITY IS A PLACE OF ASSEMBLED INSTITUTION.
• THE ROOM & PLAN, THE STREET & CITY = INSTITUTIONS BASED ON HUMAN
AGREEMENT
6. • ‘I do not like ducts; I do not like pipes. I hate them really thoroughly, but because I
hate them so thoroughly, I feel they have to be given their place. If I just hated them
and took no care, I think they would invade the building and completely destroy it.’-
LOUIS I KAHN
7.
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11. While Louis Kahn was designing
the National Assembly Building in
Bangladesh in 1962, he was
approached by an admiring Indian
architect, Balkrishna Doshi, to design
the 66 acre campus for the Indian
Institute of Management in
Ahmedabad, India.
12.
13.
14. Year of completion : 1963
Chief Architect : Louis I. Khan
B.V Doshi
Anant Raje
Site Area : 66 Acres
Building :Contemporary style
15. • BRICK HAS BEEN USED AS PRIMARY
BUILDING MATERIAL FOR THE
ENTIRE COMPLEX WALLS.
• BRICK ARCHES HAVE BEEN USED
FOR WIDER SPANS.
• CONCRETE HAS BEEN RESTRICTED
TO FLOOR SLABS, FOUNDATIONS
AND TIES FOR ARCHES.
16. The Academic complex
comprises of the following :-
• Library
• School Building
• Faculty blocks
• Dormitories
• Louis Khan Plaza
17.
18. • The library building is five storyed structure with rectangular plan.
• It is approached by a broad, imposing flight of steps from the parking lot.
• The design has been conceived to entail movement from the active spaces to
most private and quite carrels at the farthest reaches.
• FIRST FLOOR :Main reading hall
• SECOND FLOOR : Accommodate triple height reading hall and conference
hall.
• THIRD FLOOR : Accommodates bound volumes of journals.
• FOURTH FLOOR : Has bound volumes of old books and journals.
24. • The shape of classroom is
hexagonal
• The Design of class room is
based on the seminar type
interaction between the students
and the faculty.
• Windows are high to get glare
free light.
25.
26. • The shape of each dormitory
block is square with two
residential wings, triangular
lounge and a service area.
• THE POSITION OF THE
STAIRCASEAND
WASHROOM ARE MEANT TO
PROTECT THE LIVING
ROOM FROM SUN
ANDGLARE WITHOUT
OBSTRUCTING AND THE
BREEZE AND VENTELATION.
• The Dorns are placed one
behind the other To Obtain the
much needed breeze and
cross ventelation.
32. • MANAGEMENT DEVLOPMENT CENTER IS LOCATED TOWARDS
ESTERN EDGE OF THE CAMPUS. IT HAS BEEN PLANNED AS A
SELF CONTAINED UNIT WITH ACADEMIC AREA, OFFICES,
EXECUTIVES HOSTELS AND DINING FACILITIES.
• IT IS A DOUBLE STORYED BUILDING WITH A BASEMENT AND
HAS A U SHAPE PLAN ENCLOUSING A COURT IN BETWEEN
• THERE ARE TWO LECTURE HALLS, TWO CONFERENCE ROOMS
AND EIGHT SYNDICATE ROOMS IN THE MDC BUILDING.
33.
34. • The large façade omissions are abstracted patterns found within the Indian
culture that were positioned to act as light wells and a natural cooling system
protecting the interior from India’s harsh desert climate.
35.
36.
37. • National Assembly Building of
Bangladesh
• One of the largest legislative
complexes in the world.
• Houses all parliamentary activities
of Bangladesh .
• Construction of the Jatiya
Shangshad Bhaban began in 1961
by the Government of Pakistan as a
permanent building for the federal
administration of both West and
East Pakistan.
38. • 1.Beginning of construction:
1961
• 2.Completed on:28 January
1982
• 3.Cost of construction and
design:129 crore
• 4.Material used: concrete
blocks
• 5.Total area: 200 acres
39.
40. • The Main Building
• Consists of 9 individual blocks
• 8 peripheral blocks (height=110
ft)
• 4 offices
• 1 prayer hall
• 1 Minister’s lounge
• 1 Dinning & Recreation
• 1 Ablution court
41. • The main building (the Bhaban) is divided into three parts:
• Presidential Plaza: 65,000 square feet
• The Main Plaza: 823,000 square feet
• South Plaza: 223,000 square feet
42. • Average height 117 ft
• Consists of the Parliament
Chamber, two platform and
two galleries for VIP visitors
with a parabolic shell proof.
43. • The most interesting things is, there is not a single column in the entire
building. Hollow columns that are parts of space enclosures have been
adapted as structur
• Kahn's complex may be credited with more than one innovations :
• The scale of the building
• The use of as caste concrete
• The use of exposed brick masonry
• Frankie pile foundation
were not attempted in Bangladesh before al supports.
44. • The concrete surface bear the
imprint of the structure
• No paint and plaster was used
to maintain the purity of the
surface
45. The use of exposed brick masonry Frankie Pile foundation was
used