Exeter library

Impressive buildings by Louis Kahn, IM Pei and Eero Saarinen are among Sam Lubell's highlights of modernist architectural sites along the Eastern Seaboard

Phillips Exeter Academy Library, New Hampshire CT (1965-1971) | Louis Kahn | Archweb 2D

[photographed in 2011]

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Completed in 1972, the Library at Phillips Exeter Academy is an inspiring manifestation of Louis Kahn's approach to creating space through the honest application of material and use of rational geometry, balanced by an awareness of human scale and the integral role of natural light. From t

D607_037 23/09/2011 : Exeter, NH, Main St: library at Phillips Exeter Academy (Louis I. Kahn, 1965-71)

Phillips Exeter Academy Library serves as Phillips Exeter Academy’s, an independent boarding school located in Exeter, New Hampshire, personal library. It is the largest secondary school library in the world, containing 160,000 volumes over nine levels, with a shelf capacity of 250,000 volumes. Image source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Exeter_Academy_Library When it became clear in the 1950s that the … Continue reading "Phillips Exeter Academy Library (1965)"

Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974) was the architect of the library (1965-1972) at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire.

Architect: Louis Kahn Location: Exeter, New Hampshire Year: 1967-72

Louis Kahn is widely recognised as one of the greatest architects of the twentieth century, known for his monolithic concrete buildings around the world