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Sacrilege at IIMA: Louis Kahn's architectural legacy is integral, symbiotic

Only a petty administration would think of destroying any part of it

IIM Ahmedabad
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The double-helix staircase connecting the four floors of the library and visible through a glass window is an equally striking modern design

Shreekant Sambrani
Louis Kahn’s architectural design of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), often talked of in the same vein as Le Corbusier’s Chandigarh, gave the institute a unique and distinct physical identity well before it acquired a performance-based one. A replica of the stunning large circular window in the library has been a permanent exhibit in the Museum of Modern Art in New York since the early 1970s. The double-helix staircase connecting the four floors of the library and visible through a glass window is an equally striking modern design.
 
Kahn told us in his last visit to IIMA in