Load-bearing brick façade, with wooden panels and windows outside the reading carrels and piers that decrease in thickness with each additional level.‹›
Phillips Exeter Academy Library

Louis Kahn

Exterior · Exeter, United States · 1972

Photo: Cysj1024 · 2017-04-08 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Original 2448×3264

Load-bearing brick façade, with wooden panels and windows outside the reading carrels and piers that decrease in thickness with each additional level.

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