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dc.coverage.spatialSite: La Jolla (San Diego, California, United States)en_US
dc.coverage.temporal1959-1965 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorKahn, Louis Isidoreen_US
dc.date1959-1965en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-05-07T14:26:34Z
dc.date.available2013-05-07T14:26:34Z
dc.date.issued1959-1965en_US
dc.identifier213394en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 118en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/120796
dc.descriptionHorizontal view, on axis, looking from the west end of the central court towards the water source at east end, depicting most of the court and natural enclosure, from the east; Both the formal issues and the mechanical complexity encountered in the project were re-examined in Kahn's designs for the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA (1959-1965). A major part of its programme was the monumental representation of a new institution in a new location, and Kahn responded with a site plan that echoed his Beaux-Arts training: two study/laboratory wings flank a formal axial courtyard with a view to the sea; they were to have been connected by oblique linking paths to a village-like residential area and a meeting building. Mechanical services for the laboratories are accommodated in walk-through inter-floor spaces, a method that became standard practice in hospitals and laboratories. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/ (accessed 1/3/2008)en_US
dc.format.mediumconcrete; teak; marble; wateren_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectcontemporary (1960 to present)en_US
dc.subjectBiology Researchen_US
dc.subjectModernisten_US
dc.titleSalk Institute for Biological Studiesen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-KL-SI-C3en_US
vra.culturalContextAmericanen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktyperesearch laboratoryen_US
vra.worktypefountainen_US
dc.contributor.displayLouis Isidore Kahn (American architect, 1901-1974)en_US


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