La Jolla // Salk Institute

by RM

Salk Institute for Biological Studies // Louis Kahn // 1960

A second visit to the Salk Institute doesn’t diminish it’s inspiring monumental brutalism. The more time I spend there the more the building softens, and small details start to appear and the shadows create more interesting shapes beyond the one single view straight down the middle. This time I tried to take some photos which capture the interesting oblique views along the colonnades. It’s still hard to believe the building was designed in the 1950s.