Louis Kahn and Venezia The project for the Palazzo dei Congressi and the Biennale building
(WorldNews Switzerland)

The exhibitionLouis Kahn and Venice, which inaugurates the USI Teatro dell`architettura Mendrisio, stages for the first time the profound link between the American architect and the Italian city. Since 1928, when hearrived in Europe on his first Grand Tour, having left Estonia as a child when his family moved to Philadelphia, Kahn had kept up close ties with Venice. There were to be many close encounters: with itsarchitecture - the Doge`s Palace,Piazza San Marco, the anonymous streets and bridges suspended over the water - as well as with its eminent inhabitants, such as Carlo Scarpa and Giuseppe Mazzariol. This network of experiences and relationshipsledhim, in the late sixties, to become...