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Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Kahn, Louis Isidore
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URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/120821
Date
1959-1965
Description
Stairs and bridges, looking straight ahead; 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)
Type of Work
research laboratory; fountain
Subject
architectural exteriors, contemporary (1960 to present), Biology Research, Modernist
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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