the work of louis kahn has been an influence on ando throughout his career the modern responds to kahn design of the kimbell museum with a similar series of elongated volumes on rectangular plans however the modern turns its back to the kimbell with services and car park facing kahn building the fundamental design element in kahn museum the half ellipse profile of the vault finds expression in the rectangular form ando uses in his design extruding the basic 2D shapes creates the basic volumes in each design the repetition of the basic volumes is then composited into the bodies of the both museums