The Halpern-Rogath Curatorial Seminar exhibition, Louis I. Kahn: The Making of a Room, is now open at the University of Pennsylvania’s Arthur Ross Gallery. Organized around Louis Kahn's proclamation that "Architecture comes from the Making of a Room," it will be on view from February 7 through March 29, 2009. The exhibition can also be seen at http://www.arthistory.upenn.edu/themakingofaroom.

The exhibition explores Kahn's concept of the room as the building block of architecture, showing the poetic considerations Kahn's architectural philosophies lent to his development of interiors. It focuses on his artistic representations of the way he envisioned his buildings would be used. Thirty-six of Kahn's original drawings, many never before exhibited, support this concept with plans, elevations, and perspectives of interiors and furnishings. more>