Born: February 20, 1901, Ezer Island, Russian Empire [Died] March 17, 1974. New York, New York, United States. American architect. Full name Louis Isadore Kahn. In 1905, he moved to the United States with his parents and settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received a French Beaux-Arts education at the University of Pennsylvania, which emphasized classical tradition, and graduated in 1924. He then traveled to Europe to study and sketch various monuments. In the 1930s and 1940s, he designed private homes and housing for workers. In 1947, he became a professor at Yale University, and in 1950, he was appointed a fellow at the American Academy in Rome, and in 1957, he became a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He attracted worldwide attention with his designs for the Yale University Art Gallery (1952-54) and the Richards Medical Institute at the University of Pennsylvania (1960-65). He developed an architectural philosophy that "searches for the beginning of architecture," and his practical works include the Bangladesh Capital City Plan (1963), the Salk Institute for Biological Studies (1959-65), the Kimbell Art Museum (1972), and the Exeter University Library (1972). A major retrospective of his work toured the world from October 1991 to February 1994. (→ Contemporary Architecture) Khan Kahn, Albert Born: March 21, 1869, Launen, Rhineland-Palatinate [Died] December 8, 1942, Detroit A modern American architect born in Germany. He emigrated to the United States from Germany in 1880 and worked for the Detroit Architectural Office, opening offices in Nettleton and Trowbridge in 1896. He studied reinforced concrete architecture, which was considered a new structure at the time, and applied it to mass production factory facilities in the developing American industry, becoming a leading figure in factory architecture. He gained fame with the Boyer Machine Shop (1901) and the Packard Automobile Plant (03), and designed the world's first conveyor belt assembly line at the Ford Motor Company (12), and was responsible for most of the Ford factory facilities in the 1930s and 1940s. He also designed the Detroit News newspaper (15), the University of Michigan Hospital (20), and other university facilities, but in residential architecture he preferred designs with strong traditional British and Italian influences. Khan Kahn, Herman Born: February 15, 1922, Bayown, New Jersey [Died] July 7, 1983, Chippaqua, New York. American strategic theorist and futurist. Graduated from California Institute of Technology. Studied physics, engineering, and mathematics. 1947-1961 research associate at the RAND Corporation. Founded and directed the Hudson Institute in 1961. Engaged in strategic and futurological research on behalf of the Department of Defense and the Atomic Energy Commission. Published works include On Thermonuclear War (1960), Thinking About the Unthinkable (62), The Year 2000 (67, co-authored with A. Wiener), and World Economic Development (79). Famous for his statement that "the 21st century will be Japan's century." Visited Japan several times. Khan Kahn, Richard Ferdinand Born: August 10, 1905. [Died] June 6, 1989. British economist. Educated at Cambridge University, he worked for the Board of Trade during World War II. Professor at Cambridge University from 1951 to 1972. Fellow of King's College in later years. Baron in 1965. Famous for having had a major influence on JM Keynes's concept of "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money", he clarified the conditions for industrial equilibrium under imperfect competition, and the concept of multiplier he developed in his paper "The Relation of Home Investment to Unemployment" (1931) is considered to be the basis of Keynes's multiplier theory. His major papers are included in "Selected Essays on Employment and Growth" (73). Khan Kahn, Gustave Born: December 21, 1859, Metz Died September 5, 1936. Paris. French poet and novelist. Known as an advocate of free verse. In 1886, he founded the Symbolist magazines Le Symboliste and La Vogue. In the preface to the second edition (97) of his poetry collection Palais nomades (1887), he developed the theory of free verse, which had a great influence on the poetry world. In addition to poetry collections such as Chansons d'amant (91) and Limbes de lumière (95), he also published the novel L'Adultère sentimental (1902) and the critique Symbolistes et Décadents (02). Khan Khan, Ali Akbar Born: April 14, 1922, Shibpur, British India [Died] June 18, 2009. San Anselmo, California, USA. Indian sarod player and composer. Brother-in-law of Ravi Shankar. Son of Alauddin Khan, Shankar's teacher and said to be the greatest North Indian musician of the 20th century. Invited by violinist Yehudi Menuhin to New York in 1955, he expanded his activities to Western Europe. He founded the Ali Akbar School of Music in Calcutta (Kolkata), India in 1956, San Rafael, California in 1967, and Basel, Switzerland in 1985. In 1991, he was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship by the MacArthur Foundation. Khan Kern, Jerome David Born: January 27, 1885 in New York [Died] November 11, 1945. New York. American musical composer. Graduated from the New York Conservatory of Music and studied in Germany. Show Boat (1927) is considered a timeless masterpiece, and he also composed many other musical plays and film scores. His famous songs include Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Ol' Man River. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia About Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Information |