A light well in the south building of the Salk Institute at 10010 North Torrey Pines Road in La Jolla, San Diego, California. The institute was founded in 1960 by Jonas Salk, and its headquarters was built in 1966, and was designed by Louis Kahn in the Brutalist style.‹›
Salk Institute for Biological Studies building

Louis Kahn

Interior · San Diego, United States · 1966

Photo: Beyond My Ken · 2019-10-14 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Original 3864×4523

A light well in the south building of the Salk Institute at 10010 North Torrey Pines Road in La Jolla, San Diego, California. The institute was founded in 1960 by Jonas Salk, and its headquarters was built in 1966, and was designed by Louis Kahn in the Brutalist style.

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