building per year. Robert Campbell, architectural critic for the Boston Globe and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, declared it to be "the greatest American building of the second half of the 20th century." Robert McCarter, author of Louis I. Kahn, said that the Kimbell Art Museum "is rightly considered Kahn's greatest built work" and "has been the subject of more scholarly studies than all his other works combined." Carter Wiseman, author of Louis I. Kahn: Beyond Time and Style, said, "With the Kimbell, Kahn had achieved something unique in the history of modern architecture, a building that engages an element of nature—sunlight—with unprecedented skill and combined it with a contemporary program in a structure that also called upon the most advanced engineering while invoking the monuments of the past." Thos. S. Byrne, Ltd., the construction contractor, won the first Build America Award from the Associated General Contractors of America in 1972 for the "innovative construction techniques" used on the museum. European collection highlights Asian collection highlights Management The Kimbell Art Museum derives around 65% of its $12 million budget from its unrestricted endowment of more than $400 million. The endowment fell from $466 million to $398 million during the first years of the 2007–2012 global financial crisis. The museum has no special funds for acquisitions. Museum membership is at 15,000. In 2019, the museum appointed Guillaume Kientz as the curator of European art; he had previously worked in the Louvre. See also Amon Carter Museum Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth References External links QTVR walk-through of the museum Kimbell Art Museum within Google Arts & Culture 1972 establishments in Texas Art museums established in 1972 Art museums and galleries in Texas Asian art museums in the United States Buildings and structures completed in 1972 Concrete shell structures Former private collections in the United States Louis Kahn buildings Mesoamerican art museums in the United States Modernist architecture in Texas Museums in Fort Worth, Texas Renzo Piano buildings Thin-shell structures