Exeter library

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

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

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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)

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

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)"

Completed in 1972 in Exeter, United States. In 1965 Louis I. Kahn was commissioned by the Phillips Exeter Academy to design a library for the school. The Academy had been planning the new...

In 1965 Louis I. Kahn was commissioned by the Phillips Exeter Academy to design a library for the school. “No longer a mere depository of books and magazines, the modern library becomes a laboratory for research and experimentation, a quiet retreat for study, reading and reflection, the intellectual center of the community.… Fulfilling needs of a school expected eventually to number one thousand students, unpretentious, though in a handsome, inviting contemporary style, such a library would…

In 1965 Louis I. Kahn was commissioned by the Phillips Exeter Academy to design a library for the school. “No longer a mere depository of books and magazines, the modern library becomes a laboratory for research and experimentation, a quiet retreat for study, reading and reflection, the intellectual center of the community.… Fulfilling needs of a school expected eventually to number one thousand students, unpretentious, though in a handsome, inviting contemporary style, such a library would…