Honorable Mention / 2020 / Special / Smartphone Photography

Salk Institute

  • Photographer
    David Xu, United States

Salk Institute is an internationally renowned and award-winning scientists explore the very foundations of life, seeking new understandings in neuroscience, genetics, immunology, plant biology and more. The Institute is an independent nonprofit organization and had six Nobel laureates on its faculty.

Salk Insitute selected world-renowned architect Louis I. Kahn to design the research facility he envisioned would contribute to the betterment of humankind