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[[File:Salk Institute (20).jpg|thumb|left|Water stream between symmetric building masses flowing towards the ocean.]]
[[File:Salk Institute (20).jpg|thumb|left|Water stream between symmetric building masses flowing towards the ocean.]]


Jack MacAllister, [[Fellow of the American Institute of Architects|FAIA]], of the Kahn office, was the supervising architect and a design influence on the building that consists of two symmetric wings with a water stream flowing towards the ocean in the middle [[travertine]]-paved central plaza that separates the two.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aiacc.org/tag/jack-macallister/ |title=Jack MacAllister Archives |publisher=AIACC |date=2014-04-24 |access-date=2016-10-18}}</ref><ref name="latimes.com">Jessica Gelt (August 25, 2014), [http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-getty-conservation-salk-institute-architecture-20140822-story.html Getty team launches conservation study of Kahn's Salk Institute] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305210122/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-getty-conservation-salk-institute-architecture-20140822-story.html |date=March 5, 2016 }} ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''.</ref><ref>{{cite web|title = Insights: Jack MacAllister, FAIA|url = http://aecknowledge.com/presentations/1|website = aecknowledge.com|access-date = 2016-01-25|medium = video}}</ref> In the beginning the buildings were made up of different types of [[concrete]] mixes of different color. In the basement of the complex, there are different colored water walls because Kahn was experimenting with the mixtures. The buildings themselves have been designed to promote collaboration, and thus there are no walls separating laboratories on any of the floors. The lighting fixtures on the roof slide along rails thus reflecting the collaborative and open philosophy of the Salk Institute's science.
Jack MacAllister, [[Fellow of the American Institute of Architects|FAIA]], of the Kahn office, was the supervising architect and a design influence on the building that consists of two symmetric wings with a water stream flowing towards the ocean in the middle [[travertine]]-paved central plaza that separates the two.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aiacc.org/tag/jack-macallister/ |title=Jack MacAllister Archives |publisher=AIACC |date=2014-04-24 |access-date=2016-10-18}}</ref><ref name="latimes.com">Jessica Gelt (August 25, 2014), [http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-getty-conservation-salk-institute-architecture-20140822-story.html Getty team launches conservation study of Kahn's Salk Institute] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305210122/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-getty-conservation-salk-institute-architecture-20140822-story.html |date=March 5, 2016 }} ''Los Angeles Times''.</ref><ref>{{cite web|title = Insights: Jack MacAllister, FAIA|url = http://aecknowledge.com/presentations/1|website = aecknowledge.com|access-date = 2016-01-25|medium = video}}</ref> In the beginning the buildings were made up of different types of [[concrete]] mixes of different color. In the basement of the complex, there are different colored water walls because Kahn was experimenting with the mixtures. The buildings themselves have been designed to promote collaboration, and thus there are no walls separating laboratories on any of the floors. The lighting fixtures on the roof slide along rails thus reflecting the collaborative and open philosophy of the Salk Institute's science.


After two years of design work, and after the design had been approved and meetings with building contractors had begun, Kahn and the Salk Institute abruptly decided to reduce the number of laboratory buildings from four narrow ones to two wider ones and to increase the number of floors per building from two to three.  [[August Komendant]] re-engineered the structure and produced a new set of drawings with a speed that professor Leslie described as "legendary".<ref name=leslie-book/>{{rp|143–149,200}} Komendant also trained the construction workers in techniques for producing a highly refined concrete finish.<ref name=leslie-book/>{{rp|156,165}}
After two years of design work, and after the design had been approved and meetings with building contractors had begun, Kahn and the Salk Institute abruptly decided to reduce the number of laboratory buildings from four narrow ones to two wider ones and to increase the number of floors per building from two to three.  [[August Komendant]] re-engineered the structure and produced a new set of drawings with a speed that professor Leslie described as "legendary".<ref name=leslie-book/>{{rp|143–149,200}} Komendant also trained the construction workers in techniques for producing a highly refined concrete finish.<ref name=leslie-book/>{{rp|156,165}}
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