The Kimbell Art Museum opened to the public 50 years ago on October 4,1972. It has now existed for almost eight times longer than it it took its architect, Louis I. Kahn, to conceive and construct ...

Completed in 1972 in Fort Worth, United States. Located in Fort Worth, Texas, the Kimbell Art Museum by Louis Kahn has become a mecca for all who are interested in modern architecture. The element ...

Architect Louis Kahn designed the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, long considered one of his architectural masterpieces. (c. 1972 Robert C. Lautman Photography Collection, National Building Museum) ...

Louis I. Kahn’s Kimbell Art Museum Photo: Kimbell Art Museum. Sometimes in our cultural life, the more popular something is in its day, the more quickly it ages.

Louis I. Kahn, "Temple of Apollo, Corinth, at Sunrise, 1951." Pastel and charcoal on paper. This is one of three works that will be unveiled at the Kimbell Art Museum in conjunction with its 50th ...

Architect Louis Kahn's design has long been hailed for its calm clarity — but also as a breakthrough in how museums handle daylight. This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Kimbell Art ...

FORT WORTH — The Kimbell Art Museum, designed by the legendary architect Louis Kahn, is beloved like few other museums built in the past century. Opened in 1972, it finessed all of the design ...

Kahn’s greatest successes were the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., 1959-65, and the Kimbell, 1966-72. His early work includes the Yale University Art Gallery, 1951-53, and the Jewish ...

FORT WORTH - Kimbell Art Museum director Eric M. Lee always knows when visitors to the building are architects on a pilgrimage. They walk around to the front door of Louis Kahn's masterpiece to ...

Louis Kahn’s Luminous Kimbell Brings to Town a Once-in-a-Lifetime Exhibit. The loan from the Art Institute of Chicago is the kind of exhibition that any museum in the world would covet.

FORT WORTH, Texas — The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, arguably already has one of the best museum buildings in the world. The Louis Kahn-designed structure, with its rows of vaulted ...

Renzo Piano’s design for an addition to Louis Kahn’s Modern masterpiece, the Kimbell Art Museum, to be unveiled on Thursday in Fort Worth, honors Kahn’s legacy.