Weiss House

Louis Kahn – Weiss House, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania United State, 1948-1949

La Morton and Lenore Weiss House was designed by Louis Kahn with Anne Tyng.
While Louis Kahn is acclaimed for large-scale masterpieces such as the Salk Institute, the Kimbell Art Museum and the Yale University Art Gallery, his residential work allowed him to experiment with light and form in ways that would shape those monumental designs . Only nine of Kahn's residential projects were built between 1940 and 1973. The Weiss House, a prime example of Kahn's domestic design work, took shape from 1947 to 1950. Located near Norristown, the house includes a Kahn mural rare of Pennsylvania farmland painted after the house was completed (and included an abstract representation of the black and white Dalmatian dog loved by Weisses).