COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Base to Module 9
Record
Preferred Title:
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Image View:
Stairs leading to the court with an iron gate and orange trees
Creator:
Louis Isidore Kahn (American architect, 1901-1974)
Location:
site: La Jolla (San Diego, California, United States)
Date:
1959-1965 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
Modernist, Modern
Work Type 1:
research laboratory
Work Type 2:
fountain
Classification:
architecture
Material:
concrete; teak; marble; water
Technique:
construction (assembling)
Subjects:
architectural exteriors; contemporary (1960 to present); Biology Research
Description:
Both the formal issues and the mechanical complexity encountered in the project were re-examined in Kahn's designs for the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA (1959-1965). A major part of its programme was the monumental representation of a new institution in a new location, and Kahn responded with a site plan that echoed his Beaux-Arts training: two study/laboratory wings flank a formal axial courtyard with a view to the sea; they were to have been connected by oblique linking paths to a village-like residential area and a meeting building. Mechanical services for the laboratories are accommodated in walk-through inter-floor spaces, a method that became standard practice in hospitals and laboratories. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Base Collection
Identifier:
1A1-KL-SI-B4
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
