Louis Kahn Family & early education

He came from a Jewish family and they came to the United States in 1906. They settled in Philadelphia fearing that his father would be put into the military. His family was poor. They didn’t have a good financial life. At a young age he started to play the piano in silent movies to provide an income for his family. Mr. Kahn would also sell his paintings to get money.
He went to Central High School to study architecture. After that he entered an architecture program in the University of Pennsylvania. In his senior year at the school he won a bronze medal in the Arthur Spayed Brooke Memorial prize. He worked as a draftsman in offices, while he was still in school. He was hired in Moliter’s office as a chief designer. But after two years in school he left it.