the Kimbell also presents a revolution — in the way art museums handle sunlight. Piano was certainly influenced by this in his design of the Nasher Sculpture Center, the de Menil Museum in ...

A happy exception is the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, which looks even fresher and bolder now than when it opened 50 years ago in October 1972. The building sits in the city’s ...

The Kimbell Art Museum's iconic design boasts many elegant attributes, but it is known most for how the right calibration of natural light enters its travertine limestone and polished concrete ...

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 ...

It’s fair to ask if Renzo Piano was fully sane when he agreed to design the addition to Louis Kahn’s Kimbell Art Museum. Kahn occupies a privileged place within the pantheon of America’s ...

And many people consider it to be the most perfect lighting conditions for viewing works of art." If he Kimbell Art Museum doesn't draw you in by it's beauty, the price of admission will.

For the general public, the Kimbell Art Museum’s exalted reputation rests on the extraordinarily ... Kahn’s normally reticent daughter Sue Ann Kahn publicly condemned the design. Famous people, ...

Lee, the director of Fort Worth’s Kimbell Art Museum ... mastermind behind its design, Louis Kahn. “Already then, I thought the Kimbell was the most exciting museum in the country,” Lee ...

“I am delighted with Renzo’s design, and the way, physically and symbolically, he has connected the Kimbell’s past and future,” says Kay Fortson, president of the Kimbell Art Foundation, which funds ...

The Kimbell Art Museum has earned a reputation as one of ... Pavilion (named for Italian architect Renzo Piano, who helped design Paris' famous Centre Pompidou) in 2013 has made the Kimbell ...