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Lecture by Louis I. Kahn titled "Architecture and Human Agreement," 1973

Creator: Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974
Project: Tiffany-Wharton Lectures on Corporate Design Management sound recordings.
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Phys. Desc. :Sound recording: 1 reel
Location: Columbia Center for Oral History
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Biographical Note

Louis I. Kahn was an American architect and professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design

Scope and Contents

Louis I. Kahn, in his "Architecture and Human Agreement," provides a poetic explanation of art as the only language of man and as an instrument for revealing the "humanness of man." The exchange between the executive and the designer is a powerful and human experience - the artist is the expressor and the executive is a wanter

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