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Thanks. I never heard of Louis Kahn. Strange story. Somehow got a job as a professor of architecture at Yale (1947), yet never actually built anything until at least five years later.

His first major work came when he was 50 years old. The Art Gallary at Yale University (1951–1953), the first significant commission of Louis Kahn and his first masterpiece, replete with technical innovations, like a floor slab system giving access to mechanical systems, and a somewhat 'brutalist' shock to Yale's neo-Gothic context.

I've been by and in that building many times. It never struck me as a work of art in itself. I'll have to revisit one of these days.

Louis Kahn died penniles, or rather deep in debt. However, the standard of success for architects is somewhat different in that their legacy graces the landscape for centuries and thus, the financial aspects of their condition at their death are overlooked.

Good find.