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Ely Jacques Kahn (June 1, 1884 – September 5, 1972) was an American commercial architect who designed numerous skyscrapers in New York City in the twentieth century. [1] In addition to buildings intended for commercial use, Kahn's designs ranged throughout the possibilities of architectural programs, including facilities for the ...
The first comprehensive exhibition of the work of Ely Jacques Kahn, one of the most enduring and prolific architects of twentieth-century New York, will be shown at the Wallach Art Gallery. The exhibition traces a trajectory through the life and work of a man whose designs have become icons in the architectural landscape of Manhattan.
Obituary of Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr., who died last week, at the age of seventy-seven, after an automobile accident. He began to write for THE NEW YORKER in 1937, when he was a senior at Harvard.
Aug 27, 2006 · A NEW book on the architect Ely Jacques Kahn is out, a few months after the Landmarks Preservation Commission protected his signature building: the blocky, brilliantly colored 2 Park Avenue of...
Beaux-Arts to Modernism in New York. The first comprehensive exhibition of the work of Ely Jacques Kahn, one of the most enduring and prolific architects of twentieth-century New York, Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect, traces a trajectory through the life and work of a man whose designs have become icons in the architectural landscape of Manhattan.
May 29, 1994 · E. J. Kahn Jr., who used the globe and its peoples and landscapes as canvases for his voluminous writings as a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine since 1937, died yesterday afternoon in...
Sep 21, 2006 · Ely Jacques Kahn (1884-1972) was one of the most prolific architects in New York City, most known for his work within the 1920s New York building boom.
