LAND MATTERS

Kimbell Art Museum

The expansion of Louis I. Kahn's 1972 masterpiece consists of a freestanding structure, placed in the park-like setting of the site, opposite the original Kahn building. The new structure includes exhibition galleries, a lecture and performance hall, cafe, education spaces, gardens and offices. The program includes approximately 30,000 square feet of occupied space beneath a sod roof, an equal amount of space beneath a photovoltaic glass roof, and a 150 car parking garage situated underground beneath a grove of elm trees. Mike Morgan served as landscape architect for the project while acting as Director of Landscape Architecture with Pond & Co. and later as owner of Michael Morgan Landscape Architecture

Project Start Date: 2007
Project Completion: November 2013
Client:     Kimbell Art Foundation
Team:     RPBW Architecture, Genoa
              Paratus Group, Program Manager, New York
Link to published project renderings: Click Here

Design team meeting in the Kahn Building Auditorium c.2008

The following links will take you to images of some of the design team process for the project.

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