Weiss House

Louis Kahn – Weiss House, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States, 1948-1949

The Morton and Lenore Weiss House was designed by Louis Kahn with Anne Tyng.
While Louis Kahn is acclaimed for large-scale masterpieces such as the Salk Institute, the Kimbell Art Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery, his residential work allowed him to experiment with light and form in ways that would inform those monumental designs. Only nine of Kahn's residential projects were built, between 1940 and 1973.

The Weiss House, an early example of Kahn's domestic design work, took shape from 1947 to 1950. Located near Norristown, the house includes a rare mural Kahn painted of Pennsylvania farmland after the house was completed (and including an abstract depiction of Weisses's beloved black-and-white Dalmatian dog).