Salk Institute

A 1965 research campus on the La Jolla cliffs, famous for its austere central court and axis toward the Pacific.

A narrow water channel crosses the travertine court between two laboratory blocks and points to the sea.

The separation of served laboratories and servant research spaces, with concrete and timber, expresses Kahn’s planning principles.

It combines scientific use with monumental quiet, centered on a recurring axial view.

Modernism

Architect Louis Kahn