Chief architect for the Sesquicentennial Exposition in Philadelphia, 1925-26.
[1] Restroom, Penn Station, Manhattan, NY.
Father: Leib Schmuilowsky ("Leopold Kahn")
Mother: Bertha Mendelsohn
Sister: Sarah
Brother: Oscar
Wife: Esther Israeli (m. 1930, one daughter)
Daughter: Sue Ann Kahn (b. 1940)
Mistress: Anne Griswold Tyng (architect)
Daughter: Alexandra (b. 1954)
Mistress: Harriet Pattison (one son)
Son: Nathaniel Kahn (documentary filmmaker, b. 1962)
High School: Central High School, Philadelphia, PA (1920)
University: BA Architecture, University of Pennsylvania (1924)
Professor: Architecture, Yale University (1947-57)
Scholar: Architect-in-Residence, American Academy in Rome (1950)
Professor: Dean of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania (1957-)
Teacher: Visiting Lecturer, Princeton University (1961-1967)
Professor: Architecture and Planning, MIT (1962)
American Institute of Architects
American Academy of Arts and Letters 1971
Caught Fire (age 3)
Naturalized US Citizen 1914
Estonian Ancestry Paternal
Latvian Ancestry Maternal
Jewish Ancestry
Risk Factors: Smoking
Author of books:
Why City Planning Is Your Responsibility (1943, with Oscar Stonorov)
You and Your Neighborhood (1944, with Oscar Stonorov)
Is the subject of documentaries:
My Architect: A Son's Journey, 2003
Selected edifices:
Richards Medical Research Building, University of Pennsylvania (1961, Philadelphia, PA
)
Kimbell Art Museum (1972, Fort Worth, TX
)
AKA Leiser-Itze Schmuilowsky