The Salk Institute was conceived in 1960. Jonas Salk, who founded the polio vaccine, approached Louis I. Kahn to be the architect for a biomedical research institute. Salk’s humanitarian vision “that medical research does not belong entirely to medicine or the physical science. It belongs to population,” intrigued Kahn to believe his client could understand his architectural envisions and endeavours. The Salk Institute began as a collaborative vision shared between the architect and the client. The three main clusters were planned that expresses the form of the Salk Institute – the laboratory, the meeting place [the meeting house], and, the living place [the village].