at Jonas Salk
founded the Salk
Institute—a private,
nonprofit biomedical
research facili on
a bluff overlooking
the Pacific Coast,
completed in 1965—
less than a decade
aer he discovered
the vaccine for polio,
is not a surprise.
He was a brilliant
man. Extraordinary
was Salk's aesthetic
investment, his
insistence that the
building created be
"worthy of a visit
by Picasso."
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COURTESY
OF
THE
SALK
INSTITUTE
W R I T T E N B Y J E N N T H O R N T O N
Louis Kahn's modernist
masterpiece, the Salk Institute
for Biological Studies,
brings art and science into a
humanistic whole
JOB
KAHN
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