Louis Kahn was born in 1901 as Itze Leib Schmuilowsky in what is today Estonia. His family emigrated to America in 1906, escaping the Russo-Japanese War. They settled in Philadelphia, where Louis became interested in art and architecture. During the Great Depression, he found a job in the Jersey Homesteads assisting Alfred Kastner, a world-renowned architect who was a product of the Bauhaus School of Architecture.Louis Kahn’s accomplished career encompassed such noted works as:

• The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas

• Richards Medical Research Building –University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

• Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

• FDR Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island, NY

• Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA

• National Assembly Building Dhaka, Bengladesh

• Jewish Community Center Bath House, Trenton, NJ

• Library at Philips Exeter Academy in Exeter, NH

• Hurva Synagogue, Old City Jerusalem, Israel

• Congregation Mikveh Israel, Philadelphia, PA

• Temple Beth El of Northern Westchester Chappaqua, NY
  
  We will explore these magnificent designs created by architect Louis Kahn in this one-hour zoom program.
  
  Your presenter for this talk is Oscar Israelowitz, an architect, author, and artist. Born in Brussels, Belgium, Oscar has degrees in geology and architecture, is a licensed architect in Israel, a licensed New York City Tour Guide, and has exhibited photographic shows at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Historical Society, the New York Transit Museum, and the Main Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library.