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Show Prof. To Speak At Banquet Louis I Kahn, Paul Phillippe Cret Professor of Architecture in the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate Grad-uate School of Fine Arts, will speak at the Architecture Departments annual awards banquet Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Union West Ballroom. Mr. Kahn is well known for his worontiio Hpsipnine talent. He has of Arts and Letters for his contribution contri-bution to architecture as an art. During the same year he was a guest of the Japanese government at a World Design Conference in Tokyo. He received an honorary doctorate degree from the Polytechnic Poly-technic Institute of Milan, Italy, in 1964 and two years later he was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy Acad-emy of Fine Arts. Mr. Kahn has been a member of the Pensylvania faculty since 1955. He has also taught at Yale and Princeton universities, Massachusetts Massachus-etts Institute of Technology and the American Academy in Rome. planned everything from housing ; projects to art galleries, research laboratories, dormitories, synagog-; synagog-; ues, libraries and playgrounds. : Among his most noted projects are the Yale University Art Gallery, ! the Folger Shakespeare Library in ' Washington, D.C., a school of business busi-ness management in India; drawings draw-ings for the Chicago Centennial of 1933 and a laboratory for the Jonas Salk Institute of Biological Studies. International Praise Mr. Kahn's work has been highly praised in many countries. In 1960 he was awarded the Arnold Brun-ner Brun-ner Prize by the National Institute v:ifs ' 4 ' 3 I m t l4M f r Professor Louis I. Kahn of Pennsylvania University will be guest speaker at the annual Architecture awards banquet Thursday at 8 p.m. |
