Transcript of "Louis i kahan"
1. And the challenge of monumenatality
2. INTRODUCTION Louis Isadore Kahn was born in 1901 on the Baltic island of Osel, Estonia. At the age of four, Kahn moved with his family to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The family couldn't even afford pencils but made their own charcoal sticks from burnt twigs so that Louis could earn a little money from drawings and later by playing piano to accompany silent movies. Kahn attended public schools and supplemented his education with art classes at the local industrial Art school, where he focused on drawing and he continued until his high school.