
Glorify the Brick: Louis Kahn at the Design Museum
Louis Kahn has been known as the architect’s architect. Others have had that title before him and a few have since. Aalto, Asplund, Stirling and Zumthor come to mind. But what makes these architects universally adored amongst their contemporaries while everyone else is unaware of their work? I suppose each demonstrated a puritanical work ethic in their career. And they have all subverted modernism by drawing on the past. We know that all contemporary architects of any caliber