Louis Isadore Kahn

Louis Isadore Kahn, popularly known as Louis I Kahn is an American architect who was considered by some as "America's foremost living architect." His meticulously built works, his provocative proposals that remained unbuilt, and his teaching and service as a design critic undoubtedly made him one of the most influential architects of the twentieth century. To Bangladeshis, he is best known for his architectural masterpiece, Bangladesh National Parliament, one of the must-sees of Bangladesh. From 1957 until his death, he remained a professor of architecture at the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. Kahn's buildings followed a style that was monumental and monolithic; his heavy buildings for the most part do not hide their weight, their materials, or the way they are assembled. Throughout his illustrious career, he achieved a number of awards- AIA Gold Medal and the RIBA Gold Medal are the most significant ones.