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  • Bangladesh's parliamentary building, Jatiya Sangsad, in Dhaka, which was designed by Louis Kahn. Image photographed on January 13, 1994.
    Bangladesh's parliamentary building, Jatiya Sangsad, in Dhaka, which was designed by Louis Kahn. Image photographed on January 13, 1994.
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    Louis Kahn Architectural Retrospective Opens in the U.S.

    An exhibition featuring the creations of the legendary architect is now showing at the Bellevue Arts Museum in Washington

    byLisa Klug
  • Giorgio Cavaglieri with one of his early preservation projects, the Fisk Building.(Steve Brodner)
    Giorgio Cavaglieri with one of his early preservation projects, the Fisk Building.(Steve Brodner)
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    The Rebuilder

    By reimagining landmark New York buildings like the Astor Library, which became the Public Theater, Giorgio Cavaglieri championed the architectural preservation that shaped the modern city

    byAllan M. Jalon
  • Richard Meier's 1985 "Meier Lamp," reproductions of which are being sold by New York's Jewish Museum.(Courtesy Richard Meier & Partners)
    Richard Meier's 1985 "Meier Lamp," reproductions of which are being sold by New York's Jewish Museum.(Courtesy Richard Meier & Partners)
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    Design Within Reach

    As he unveils a new line of affordable Judaica, architect Richard Meier reflects on his Jewishness

    byJudith Matloff
  • Sephardic Jews observe Hoshanah Rabbah.(Etching by Bernard Picart, from Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde, collection of the UCLA Digital Library, created by the UCLA Library and used with permission.)
    Sephardic Jews observe Hoshanah Rabbah.(Etching by Bernard Picart, from Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde, collection of the UCLA Digital Library, created by the UCLA Library and used with permission.)
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    Enlightened Views

    A new book shows how a set of 18th-century etchings helped change the way Europe thought about religion

    byJenna Weissman Joselit
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    Parent Documentaries: A New Jewish Genre?

    Filmmakers reinterpret the 5th commandment

    byGabriel Sanders
  • Model of Louis Kahn's proposed Congregation Mikveh Israel, which Kahn's assistants used to test the way the towers regulated light.(Susan G. Solomon)
    Model of Louis Kahn's proposed Congregation Mikveh Israel, which Kahn's assistants used to test the way the towers regulated light.(Susan G. Solomon)
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    Sacred Space

    Louis Kahn and the architecture of quiet reverence

    bySamuel D. Gruber
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