Louis Kahn is the architect who designed the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth.
I have blogged about the Kimbell Art Museum a few times, including...
Someone Thinks Fort Worth Is The Location Of The Most Beautiful Work Of Modern Architecture In The World
and
Shocked To Learn The Kimbell Art Museum Is No Longer The World's Most Beautiful Work Of Modern Architecture
In the first blogging I referenced the Wikipedia article about the Kimbell Art Museum, in which the article informed us....
"Fort Worth is home to the Kimbell Art Museum, considered to have one of the best collections in the world, and housed in what is widely regarded as the most beautiful work of modern architecture in the world."
Well, clearly the above is ridiculous hyperbole, and I so indicated. Soon the Wikipedia article was edited to be more grounded in reality, which I blogged about in the second blogging, with the edited hyperbole now saying....
The Kimbell Art Museum, considered to have one of the best collections in Texas, is housed in what is widely regarded as one of Texas' foremost works of modern architecture designed by Louis Kahn and Renzo Piano.
So, I was curious if the Seattle Times Meet Louis Kahn, the modern designer you know the least about at the Bellevue Arts Museum article mentioned the former most beautiful work of modern architecture in the world.
Well, mention was made in the following paragraph...
Kahn’s most famous buildings — The Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, the National Assembly Building in Dhaka, Bangladesh — show a fascination with pleasingly layered geometric shapes, touchable materials and human scale. They reveal a creator less concerned with making sculptures to be admired from afar than making spaces in which people can experience light and motion as it unfolds over time.
The Seattle Times article failed to mention that the Kimbell Art Museum used to be widely regarded as the most beautiful work of modern architecture in the world....
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