Louis Kahn - Architect

Louis Isadore Kahn (1901 – 1974)

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“The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building” Louis Kahn

Biography

Masterpiece

Design Approach, Style & Analysis

Significance of Geographical & Political

Concept

Architects who influenced Kahn’s works

Quotes

Biography

 Born :February 20, 1901Died :March 17, 1974 (aged 73)Nationality :American Influenced :Muzharul Islam Awards :ALA Gold Medal, RIBA Gold MedalProjects :Center of Philadelphia, Urban and Traffic StudyBuildings: Jatiyo Sangshad BhabanPhillips Exeter Academy LibraryKimbell Art Museum

Graduated from University of Pennsylvania (1924)

Masterpiece1951 1954

University Art CenterNew Haven, USA

(1951-1954)

Trenton Bath House, Ewing, New Jersey

(1954-1955)

Masterpiece1957 1959

Richards Medical CenterPhiladelphia, USA

(1957-1962)

Jonas Salk Institute of Biological StudiesLa Jolla, California

(1959-1967)

Masterpiece1962

Indian Institute of Management –

Ahmedabad, India (1962-1974)

National Assembly Hall – Dhaka, Bangladesh

(1962-1983)

Masterpiece1965

Philips Exeter Academy Library (1965-1971)

1966

Kimbell Art MuseumFort Worth, Texas

(1966-1972)

1969Yale Center for British

Art(1969)

Masterpiece

Trenton Bath House (1954-1955)

http://kahntrentonbathhouse.org/bathHouse2.htm

Plans & Drawings:

Trenton Bath House

(1954-1955)

Trenton Bath House

(1954-1955)

Court of the Lions-Alhambra, Southern Spain

Salk Institute of Biological Studies,La Jolla, California (1959)

SALK INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL STUDIES

SALK INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL STUDIES

Indian Institute of ManagementAhmedabad, India (1962)

Indian Institute of ManagementAhmedabad, India (1962)

Public Business School located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.

One of the best business schools in India and in the Asia-Pacific

 Construction details

Features : Distinctive features of these buildings include the many square arches and brick structures on the walls with carved circles.

Materials: It is basically a building made of brick, traditional Indian materials. In some walls and brick facades combined with concrete, resulting in a mixed construction and ornamental.

Plan of IIM institute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m1moiEv7L8&feature=player_embedded

National Assembly Hall- Dhaka, Bangladesh (1962)

Plan of National Assembly Hall

1. Entrance hall2. Assembly Chamber3. Prayer Hall4. Offices5. Minister’s Lounge6. Dining and Recreation7. Ablution Court

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Approach to Design

Architecture is the thoughtful making of spaces. It is the creating of spaces that evoke a feeling of appropriate use.

—Louis I. Kahn

Five elements of Louis Kahn’s work:1) The Sense of Composition2) Reverence of material3) Sense of “room” – plan a society of rooms4) Light as a maker of architecture5) Architecture of Connection

Kahn’s Style

1. Complex spatial compositions and mastery of light2. Archaic beauty and powerful universal “Symbolism”3. Kahn’s quest for origins: architecture, art and in

natural sciences, human behavior and society.

Significance of Geographical and Political Concept

Early learning ground:

1) Philadelphia- hometown, - laboratory for the development of his own urbanistic

and Architectural principles

2) Structural laws – foundation for the renewal of architecture

3) Landscape – nature source of inspiration for Kahn

Political Concept

1) Evolution of architecture:

• traditional buildings and future oriented (technology and construction)

2) Ideal of Eternal Present (God) his interest in architectural history• Archetypical: Structures from Italy, Greece and Egypt.

3) He was the only architect to design• church, several synagogues and Muslim prayer room

4) Kahn’s spatial concepts were ideas above and beyond their designated functions

5) Kahn’s work shows modernism and post-modernism

6) Synthesis of major conceptual traditions of modern architecture • Ecole des Beaux Arts and Crafts Movement and Bauhaus

modernism

• Enhanced by considerations of indigenous and non-western building traditions

7) Kahn’s architecture technique:

• satisfying utilitarian needs

• artistic speculations in terms of contemplating nature, history and human community.

Who influenced Kahn?

• Paul Cret, his supervisor during studies at Pennsylvania.

• Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY LIBRARY

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''EVEN A BRICK WANTS TO BE

SOMETHING'' - LOUIS KAHN

"A work of art is not a living thing as it walks or runs

but the making of the life, that which gives you a reaction;

to somebody's the wonder of man's fingers,

to somebody's the wonder of the mind,

to somebody's the wonder of technique,

and to some it is how real it is, to some how transcendant it is,

like the 5th Symphony...

it presents itself with a feeling,

that you know it if you heard it once, and you'll look for it;

though you know it, you must hear it again,

though you know it, you must hear it again.

Truly, a work of art is one that tells us that

nature cannot make what man can make."

- Louis I. Kahn

( excerpt from MY ARCHITECT )

Thank You

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