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25 de may. de 2024 · Our Louis Kahn Building. An outstanding collaboration of design and technology, this icon of cleanly articulated structure is a cultural center and modern architectural masterpiece for the original quadrangle of the renowned Academy. With approximately 315,000 print and electronic volumes, the Academy Library, designed by Louis Kahn, provides a ...
Introduction. In 1965, Louis Kahn was called on to design a library and dining area for the high school community in the Phillips Exeter Academy. This library is one of the most important and visually austere buildings Kahn built for an American university. The architect was chosen based on the results achieved in the projects of new buildings ...
The Phillips Exeter Academy library's web site is an excellent resource. Click on "Design of the Library" to see links to a Kahn Reference Guide, Floor Schematics, etc. Figure 6 of an academic paper called "The Tectonic Integration of Louis I. Kahn′s Exeter Library" provides a helpful exploded view drawing of the library's constituent parts.
19 de oct. de 2021 · Timeless. Elemental. Accessible. Grounded in Exeter, both school and town. These are just a handful of ways in which architecture and building professionals wax lyrical about the Academy’s Louis Kahn-designed Class of 1945 Library. The intellectual and cultural heart of campus, the library is also a celebrity to those who treasure design.
20 de sept. de 2021 · The story of how Louis Kahn came to design the Academy library is a tale with many heroes. Rodney Armstrong '68 (Hon.) Rodney Armstrong ’68 (Hon.) served as the Academy’s librarian for 25 years, shepherding the school through the long and careful process of building a new library. This article, originally published in The Exeter Bulletin in ...
22 de may. de 2024 · Academy Library Visitor Policy. The Class of 1945 Library is a private, high-school library with a mission to support the educational and residential needs of the community at Phillips Exeter Academy. Our building is extraordinary, and the interest in visiting is high. We are only able to welcome visitors under the parameters below. Researchers:
Seen across the grass lawn of the Phillips Exeter Academy campus, the Library is a massive, cubic brick block, 111 feet (334 metres) wide and 80 feet (24 metres) tall, its re-entrant corners stepping back to reveal the four 88 foot (2.7 metre) wide 'brick buildings' housing the carrels. Each facade extends beyond the last perpendicular brick ...
