The Building Studies series examines important buildings through original documents, detailed text, photography, and drawings in an affordable format.

In 1961, famed architect Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974) received a commission to design a new synagogue. His client was one of the oldest Sephardic Orthodox congrega

A thoughtful selection of the celebrated architect's speeches and writings.

She demonstrates instead that Kahn's architecture is grounded in his deeply held modernist political, social, and artistic ideals, which guided him as he sought

The evolution of the postwar American synagogue illuminated through the plans for Louis Kahn's unbuilt Mikveh Israel