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At Architects, not Architecture, we believe it’s safe to say that almost everyone who has studied architecture in the last 50 years has come across The Salk Institute designed by architect Louis Kahn. While it does not always reflect in their works, our speakers have shared their little stories on how this modernist gem built in1963 played a role in their life. And since we just started our second Virtual World Tour on October 13th, 2021 we thought we’d share a few stories from last events.
"(...) All the beautiful, most iconic buildings in the world are also conceived by brilliant clients”, said Dutch architect Nanne de Ru (powerhouse company, Rotterdam) in his talk at our digital Netherlands Edition at the beginning of 2021. As an example, he referenced Louis Kahn’s collaboration with the American virologist Jonas Salk who had commissioned the research facility at La Jolla, United States, known as the Salk Institute in 1959. De Ru, believes that it was the client’s and the architect’s mutual understanding to produce great spaces that resulted in this everlasting beauty. Today he is often annoyed at profit-oriented developers and therefore chose to open his own real estate development company in order to ensure a higher quality of architecture.
