Happy Fourth of July! In recognition of Independence Day in the United States, ArchDaily has assembled six of our favorite "American Classics." Featuring projects by Louis Kahn, Mies van der Rohe, Richard Neutra, Paul Rudolph, Eero Saarinen, and Richard Meier, each of these canonical works occupies a prominent place in twentieth-century American architecture. See them all after the break.
Salk Institute / Louis Kahn. Monumental without being ostentatious, the Salk Institute is among Kahn's most famous projects in the United States. The research complex, named for the inventor of the polio vaccine, is symmetrically arranged about a strong, elegantly articulated central axis that extends into the ocean seemingly without end. Read more.
