SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES

View Description

small (250x250 max)

medium (500x500 max)

large ( > 500x500)

Full Resolution

This item is restricted to only allow viewing of the metadata.

Description

Rating
Title	SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES
View	View towards the cliffs and ocean, seen from the garden on the west end
Notes	research
Work Type	laboratory
Style/Period	Modern
Creator Name	Kahn, Louis I.
Creator Nationality	American, Russian born
School of Creator	Modern
Date.Creator Birth	1901
Date.Creator Death	1974
Major Design Aspects	complex of various buildings twin buildings site responsive strong axis
Elements & Spatial Types	court reflecting pool scupper
Climate Type	desert
Country	United States of America
City	La Jolla
State/Province	CA
Alternate Place Names	San Diego
Architectural Material	concrete, teak, marble, water
Structural System	poured concrete
Dates	1965
Century	20C
Photographer	Scott Gilchrist, Archivision
Date Photographed	11/30/1982
Subject Information	The extraordinary complex of the Salk Institute is more beautifully and humbly sited and executed than can be conveyed in photographs. Photographs usually express the openness and serenity of the plaza, but not its humanly scaled gesture to the site and Pacific Ocean beyond. The Institute is a geometrized clearing in the landscape, and continually references and expresses the landscape, not itself or its designer. Louis Kahn designed the Salk Center in La Jolla...as an eloquent composition that is spatially and symbolically incomplete, with its two richly rhythmical buildings...[which] define a powerful axis that is open at each end and that constitutes thereby a significant gesture within an American landscape. The composition of this common space...is perceptually, physically, poignantly American as it frames the sea and the land where the old western frontier ends and the new eastern frontier begins. The Institute received the American Institute of Architects Twenty-Five Year Award in 1992. Source: www.galinsky.com/buildings/salk / 'Materials used are concrete, wood, marble and water. Concrete is left with exposed joints and formwork markings. Teak and glass in-fill in the office and common room walls....' Source: www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Salk_Institute.html
Credit Line	Archivision Inc. (all images copyright Scott Gilchrist / Archivision.com)
Collection Title	Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art)
Collection information	Collection administered by the Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library, (402) 472-1193

Find results with:

Searching collections:

Home SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES

SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES

Description

Tags

Comments