FORT WORTH - Kimbell Art Museum director Eric M ... through ingenious narrow skylights in its vaulted concrete ceilings. "Structure is the giver of light," Kahn wrote. Envisioning walls as ...

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, architect Louis Kahn, structural consultant August Komendant, 1966–1972. Photo Marshall D. Meyers © The Architectural ...

and it would hit this reflector and the reflector would bounce it off of the underside of the roof structure" — seeming to make the smooth concrete vaults glow. The Kimbell Art Museum evokes ...

The Kimbell ... structure utilized speak to the deft understanding of the need for shade and water in a place such as a city describing itself as “where the West begins” in Texas. Kimbell Art ...

But the Kimbell Art Museum was up for the monumental task ... stress on the stone or overload the capacity of the rigging system. “You can’t haven’t one corner get higher or lower than ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Louis Kahn’s Kimbell Art ... museum in a perfectly symmetrical C, wrapping the entry court, echoing the forum of Roman cities, while Gehry’s tumultuous design ...

A British masterpiece has found a new home in Texas. The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth recently acquired George Stubbs’s Mares and Foals Belonging to the 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke, painted ...

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, has acquired Standing Figure Holding a Were-Jaguar Baby (around 900BC-300BC), a jade statuette at the centre of Olmec civilisation studies since the ...