Still Standing: The Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, 1963 - Architecture Today
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A workplace for scientists and a machine for solar spectacle, Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute is functional, poetic – and impossible to photograph.
Skip to content Still Standing: The Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, 1963 Words Ian Volner At sunset… Come eight o’clock on a spring or summer evening, the Salk Institute will start to gather the last of the day’s colours and set them into whatever configuration suits its purposes. Louis Kahn’s biomedical facility in La Jolla, California – built in 1963 to house the laboratory of famed researcher and discoverer of the polio vaccine, Jonas Salk – is perhaps best understood as a machine for solar spectacle, its two serrated blocks separated by a central axis aligned due west to peer…
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