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© 2016 TASCHEN GmbH

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Original edition Ω © 2006 TASCHEN GmbH

Editor Ω Peter Gössel, Bremen

Project management Ω Swantje Schmidt, Bremen

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Text edited by Ω Christiane Blass, Cologne

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ISBN 978–3–8365–4384–2

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Page 2 Ω Louis I. Kahn at his drafting table, 1961

Above Ω Indian Institute of Manage ment,

Ahmedabad, India, Sketch, 1964

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Contents

Introduction

Oser HouseCarver Court HousingCenter of PhiladelphiaYale University Art GalleryJewish Community CenterAlfred Newton Richards Medical Research BuildingEsherick HouseSalk Institute for Biological StudiesFirst Unitarian Church and SchoolEleanor Donnelley Erdman HallFisher HouseIndian Institute of ManagementGovernment sector, Sher-e-Bangla NagarLibrary, Phillips Exeter AcademyKimbell Art MuseumYale Center for British ArtKorman House

Life and WorkMapBibliography/Credits

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