2012-06-12

Kahn in Kathmandu


Family Planning Centre, Kathmandu, 1970-74

Louis I. Kahn designed a symmetrical composition of exposed brick piers interspersed by vertical strips of wooden windows. The building was topped off by a one-store high exposed brick parapet with deep punctures enclosing large roof terraces - courtyards in the sky.

Unfortunately, in 1995, the current resident of the building, the Ministry of Health, decided to put a metal roof over the terraces to create more floor space.


Soundtrack: Birds of Passage - Forbidden Love