UB Libraries Enrich Image Descriptions for William S. Huff’s Photographs of Louis I. Kahn’s Work

by DENISE WOLFE

The University at Buffalo Libraries’ digital collection of William S. Huff’s photographs documenting the work of American architect Louis I. Kahn now includes expanded image descriptions, based on an inventory recently uncovered in the UB Archives. The collection, William S. Huff Photographs of the work of Louis Kahn, showcases projects including the Yale Art Gallery (1951), the First Unitarian Church of Rochester, New York (1959), and the Yale Center for British Art (1969). 

Huff, professor emeritus of architecture at UB, worked in Kahn’s office in the late 1950s and early 1960s, capturing images that are now part of the Louis I. Kahn Collection in the University Archives. Presented to the University Archives by Huff, the images capture both the precision of Kahn’s designs and the perspective of a former student turned collaborator.