Ruins in reverse: Louis Kahn's timeless architecture – in pictures

Parlamentsgebäude in Dhaka, Bangladesh, designed 1962-83 Photograph: Raymond Meier

Parlamentsgebäude in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1962-83 Photograph: Raymond Meier

Salk Institute, California, 1959-65 Photograph: John Nicolais /The Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania

Louis Kahn (right) in front of a model of the City Tower Project in an exhibition at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, February 1958 Photograph: Sue Ann Kahn

Alfred Newton Richards Medical Research and Biology Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1957-65 Photograph: Malcom Smith/The Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania

Jewish Community Centre, Ewing Township, New Jersey, 1954-59. Exterior view of the bath house with a Kahn-designed mural at the entrance Photograph: John Ebstel/Louis I Kahn Collection, University of Pennsylvania

Phillips Exeter Academy library, New Hampshire, 1965-72 Photograph: Iwan Baan

Steven and Toby Korman House, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, 1971-73 Photograph: Barry Halkin

Colonnade on the north side, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, 1966-1972 Photograph: Robert LaPrelle /2010 Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth

Louis Kahn in the Kimbell Art Museum auditorium, 1972 Photograph: Bob Wharton/Kimbell Art Museum

Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 1962-74 Photograph: Louis I. Kahn Collection, University of Pennsylvania

Ponte Vecchio, Florence, c1930, Louis Kahn. Watercolour on paper, 17.1x19.4 cm Photograph: Private Collection

View of St Peters, Rome, 1928-29. Watercolour on paper, 22.9x27.6 cm Photograph: Collection of Sue Ann Kahn

Kahn working on the design for the Fisher House, 1961
Photograph: Louis I. Kahn Collection, University of Pennsylvania