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1 online resource (streaming video file) (27 min. 33 sec.) ; 158450446 bytes |
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In 1959, famed virologist Jonas Salk asked the architect Louis Kahn to design his dream for a new kind of research institute - a place, as he put it, where Picasso would feel at home. He imagined a monastery on the California coast that allowed scientists to work in tune with nature and unfettered by the distractions of the modern world. It was a unique collaboration between two of the 20th Century's most original thinkers. Robert Redford's The Salk Institute reveals Kahn's final design as a modern masterpiece, a romance of angles. Contemplating the building, the film urges a larger conversation about the existential qualities of a space. (From France, in English) (Documentary) G CC |
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Closed captioning in English |
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Broadcast 2014-12-20 at 15:55:00 |
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Classification: G |
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Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974.
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Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
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Medical care -- Research.
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Research institutes -- Design and construction.
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Architecture and biology.
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California -- San Diego.
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Streaming video
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Author |
Redford, Robert, director
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Albright, Thomas, contributor
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Kahn, Louis, contributor
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Lemke, Greg, contributor
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O'Shea, Clodagh, contributor
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Salk, Jonas, contributor
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Vermillo, Jessie, contributor
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