First Unitarian Church, Rochester, New York


Related people
Michael Cadwell (was created by)
Louis Isidore Kahn (was created by)
Description
"I kept the general layout of the roof and designed it as two-way folded plate with slightly raised center, to provide for drainage and create arch action to counteract shrinkage and to induce modest longitudinal prestressing by dead load. The elevated curbs around the lightwells had to be prestressed by tendons." -- Komendant, A. (1975). 18 Years with Architect Louis I. Kahn. Englewood, New Jersey: Aloray. p. 36-37.
Style/Period
1960s (1960 - 1969)
Material
brick
reinforced concrete construction