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    Louis Kahn was an American architect born in 1901 who is notable for his use of simple geometric forms and emphasis on natural light. Some of his key works in India include the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad (1963), where he utilized local brick and reinforced concrete to harmonize with the environment. His works had an influence on Indian architects through their grounding in local materials and traditions, demonstrating architecture's relationship to its cultural and geographic context.

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    Louis Kahn was an American architect born in 1901 who is notable for his use of simple geometric forms and emphasis on natural light. Some of his key works in India include the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad (1963), where he utilized local brick and reinforced concrete to harmonize with the environment. His works had an influence on Indian architects through their grounding in local materials and traditions, demonstrating architecture's relationship to its cultural and geographic context.

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    Louis Kahn

    Louis Kahn was born in Saarama


    (Saaremaa), Estonia in 1901.
    Kahn's architecture is notable for its
    simple, platonic forms and compositions.
    Through the use of brick and poured-in
    place concrete masonry, he developed a
    contemporary
    and
    monumental
    architecture that maintained a sympathy
    for the site.
    While rooted in the International Style,
    Kahn's architecture was an amalgam of his
    Beaux Arts education and a personal
    aesthetic impulse to develop his own
    architectural forms.
    Kahn received the AIA Gold Medal in 1971
    and the RIBA Gold Medal in 1972.
    Louis Kahn is considered one of the
    foremost architects of the late twentieth
    century.

    Louis Kahns works in India :


    1.Indian
    Institute
    of
    Management,Ahemedabad
    2.Institute
    of
    Public
    Administration
    3.National
    Assembly
    at
    Dacca.

    LOCATION

    INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT


    AHEMEDABAD

    PLAN OF IIM
    AHEMEDABAD
    Housing

    Housing

    Kitchen/Dining
    Substation
    Substation

    MDC

    School Building
    Library
    Faculty Block
    Service Tower
    Parking Area

    INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT

    Year of completion : 1963


    Chief Architect
    : Louis I. Khan
    B.V Doshi
    Anant Raje
    : 66 Acres
    Site Area
    : 500
    No. of Students
    Students
    : 100 Faculties
    No. of Faculties
    No. of Staff Members: 350 people

    COMPONENT OF CAMPUS

    MAIN

    Main Academic Complex


    (administration block,
    class room and faculty
    room around central
    pizza, which also has
    main entrance)
    Kitchen and dining
    ENTRANCES Faculty and Staff housing
    Management
    development center
    Students dormitories
    for PGP Students.

    CAMPUS LAYOUT
    Separate entries for institutional and residential complex.
    Separate service entry.
    Academics and social activities have been integrated with
    students and staff living.
    Institutional Complex is taken as Focal Building.
    Auditorium is located near main entrance for easy access for
    visitors.
    Residential areas have been planned in Hierarchical pattern
    School building Is planned around a court.
    School building and students dormitory have been placed
    diagonally to take advantage of winds from southwest.

    ACADEMIC COMPLEX
    The Academic complex comprises of
    the following :Library
    School Building
    Faculty blocks
    Dormitories
    Louis Khan Plaza

    LIBRARY BLOCK

    FIRST FLOOR
    PLAN OF
    LIBRARY
    The library building
    is five storyed
    structure with
    rectangular plan.
    It is approached by
    a broad, imposing
    flight of steps from
    the parking lot.
    The design has been
    conceived to entail
    movement from the
    active spaces to
    most private and
    quite carrels at the
    farthest reaches.

    SECOND FLOOR : Accommodate triple


    height reading hall and conference hall
    THIRD FLOOR : Accommodates bound
    volumes of journals.
    FOURTH FLOOR : Has bound volumes of
    old books and journals.

    SECOND FLOOR
    PLAN

    READING HALL (FIRST FLOOR)

    SCHOOL BUILDING
    BLOCK

    OFFICES ON GROUND FLOOR

    RAMP LEADING TO DORMS & CLASS ROOMS

    CLASS ROOMS
    The shape of classroom
    is hexagonal
    The Design of class
    room is based on the
    seminar type interaction
    between the students
    and the faculty.
    Windows are high to get
    glare free light.

    FACULTY BLOCKS
    Faculty block is on the right side
    of the main entrance.
    It is four stored building with
    four blocks.
    All the openings are designed
    to overlook the adjacent and
    landscape garden and Louis
    Khan Plaza.

    Faculty blocks over the landscaped


    Garden in Between

    DORMITORIES
    The shape of each
    dormitory block is
    square with two
    residential
    wings,
    triangular
    lounge
    and a service area.
    The position of the
    staircase
    and
    washroom
    are
    meant to protect
    the
    living
    room
    from sun and glare
    without obstructing
    and the breeze and
    ventilation.

    Dormitory Block

    Courtyard between Dormitory block

    LOUIS KHAN PLAZA


    Instead of small
    courtyard, one large
    court has been planned
    in the center to relate
    the movement around.

    AUDITORIUM
    CAPACITY

    : 550 SEATS

    AREA

    ENTRANCE LOBBY
    FOYER
    AUDITORIUM HALL
    CONFERENCE ROOM
    SEMINAR ROOM

    : 560 Sq feets
    : 560 Sq feets
    : 3000 Sq feets
    : 200 Sq feets
    :400 Sq feets Each

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    GROUND FLOOR PLAN

    FIRST FLOOR PLAN

    DINING BLOCK

    MANAGEMENT DEVLOPMENT
    CENTER
    Management devlopment center is located towards
    estern edge of the campus. It has been planned as a
    self contained unit with academic area, offices,
    executives hostels and dining facilities.
    It is a double storyed building with a basement and
    has a u shape plan enclousing a court in between
    There are two lecture halls, two conference rooms
    and eight syndicate rooms in the mdc building.

    THE PLAN OF MDC

    BUILDING MATERIALS
    BRICK HAS BEEN
    USED AS PRIMARY
    BUILDING
    MATERIAL FOR THE
    ENTIRE COMPLEX
    WALLS, COLUMNS.
    BRICK ARCHES
    HAVE BEEN USED
    FOR WIDE SPANS.

    USE OF CONCERETE HAS


    BEEN RESTRICTED TO
    FOUNDATIONS, FLOOR
    SLABS, AND TIES FOR
    ARCHED OPENINGS.

    Institute of Public Administration


    Architect : Louis I. Kahn
    Location : Ahmedabad, India
    Date :1963
    Building Type school of
    government
    Construction System brick
    masonry and concrete
    Climate desert
    Context urban
    Style Modern
    Notes : Heavy layered walls
    modulate sun and capture
    ventilating breezes.

    The organization of the complex, as well


    as its architecture, reflects the
    conceptual organization of learning
    which is focused on three inevitable
    components.
    The sudden vibration of light on the
    lowered arches spanning the concrete
    cord to the gesture of full arches, and of
    the round openings with their curved
    shades, all maintained within the strict
    discipline of construction, spatial
    dimensioning, and plan organization."

    LOUIS KHAN WORKS IN INDIA & THEIR INFLUENCES ON EMPIRICISTS

    Louis khan was steeped in classicism by his beaux arts education and
    his
    Experience at the American Academy in Rome.
    He came to India to in 1962 a decade later than Lecorbusier on being
    Selected to design IIM Ahemedabad.

    Kahns influence on the Indian architectural scene occurred in much


    same
    Way as Lecorbusier but the time, volume , Location and size of his
    work
    Resulted in a lesser impact. he was less of a guru for Indian Architects.

    Some of his work in India were the IIM in Ahemedabad and


    gandhinagar
    Gujarats new capital.

    Kahn is officially listed as the architectural consultant to the Nationa


    Insitute of design in Ahemedabad on the IIM Project but he was actua
    The architect. Doshi & Anant Raje were the liason architects.

    In IIM he used local building skills and used brick , a common buildin
    Material rather than going for more sophisticated techniques used by
    Lecorb in Chandigarh.

    In South Asian work he was able to explore the use of brick in way th
    He had been unable to do in America. his Indian experiences thus ver
    Much influenced the later American architecture.

    The IIM seems to have stood up well over time although


    shortcomings in Dealings with the climate are again in evidence.
    Kahns Indian colleagues such as Raje and assistants such as
    Kulbushan Jain were directly affected by the experience of working
    with him. his major Lessons for India stemmed from the grounding of
    his work in reality and Tradition , local materials and methods .
    On Khans death and the withdrawal of his Philadelphia office from
    work
    On the IIM , Raje continued the development of the campus with the
    Designing of the dining halls , the Management Development center
    and
    The housing for staffs and students .

    To the lay person this work is almost indistinguishable From


    Khans and gives consistency of design to the whole Institute.
    Like lecorbusier ,Kahn also had an impact on architectural
    education. His Collaboration with doshi occurred in formative
    years of the school of Architecture at the CEPT in Ahemedabad.
    With the development of such Schools and with the younger
    architects being Exposed to the work of Lecorbusier and Khan , a
    new period of Architectural Work emerged in India. It is highly
    influenced by the Masters

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