Louis Kahn Architect
First Unitarian Church and School
Rochester NY 1959-1969
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Louis Kahn Designed an built the First Unitarian Church and School in Rochester NY from 1959 to 1969
Kahn’s earliest known sketches show that he was working with a centralized concept.
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His Desire was to create a single unified structure appropriate to Unitarianism….
Another influence of past solutions to church planning was Rudolf Wittkower’s Architectural Principles in the age of Humanism which illustrated centrally planned Renaissance churches.
Did Ronchamp chapel was another source of inspiration for Louis Kahn?
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Note the concrete heavy flouting roof and the distribution of the indirect day light coming from hidden windows.
Louis Kahn First Unitarian Church eliinbar Sketches 2010
Le Corbusier Ronchamp Chapel eliinbar Sketches 2010
Rafael Moneo Lady of the Angels Cathedral eliinbar Sketches 2010
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