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Showing 1 to 20 of 148 for “"Kahn"”.
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Within the text of Kahn
… writing, lectures and interviews of Louis I. Kahn between 1931 and 1974. It attempts to map the elaboration and unfolding of meaning that occur in four of his major concepts: Form and Design, realization, expression and Silence and Light. His textual production is aimed at trying to understand …
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The Organic Imagination and Louis Kahn
… in the ideas of the American architect, Louis Kahn. Part One builds a chronology from Hermeticism and Jewish mysticisms into German Romanticism and how they played a role in the world of Kahn's parents shortly before his birth. The first chapter looks at mysticism and how it resonates with …
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Building new thoughts : the Aga Kahn Award for Architecture
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture (AKAA) is an architectural award instituted by His Highness Karim Aga Khan to recognize the achievements of architects, planners, and community organizations that have contributed to architecture in the Muslim world. The scope of the AKAA enterprise is vast and …
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Continuidad y discontinuidad en Louis I. Kahn : material, estructura y espacio
La obra de Louis I. Kahn —como decía Robert Le Ricolais, íntimo colaborador suyo sorprendentemente ignorado hasta ahora— no es fácil de reducir a un discurso lineal. Al hilo de esta apreciación, en el presente trabajo hemos intentado distanciarnos de una linealidad, lo cual nos separa sensiblemente …
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Dialectics of vision : the voyages of Louis I. Kahn, 1950-59
Kahn's genre of travel sketches offers us a visual basis to map his philosophical meandering. This thesis addresses the sketches produced from Kahn's voyages around the Mediterranean in 1950-51 and 1959 with an aim to understanding the premises that underlie them. During the trips, Kahn conjectured …
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The Integration of Art, Architecture, and Identity: Alfred Kastner, Louis Kahn, and Ben Shahn at Jersey Homesteads
… with his then unknown assistant Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974). These unornamented, functionalist buildings adapted avant-garde European architectural forms into an American context in order to house the group in improved living conditions that suited their ambitious cooperative plans.</p> …
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The art of ambiguity : (experiencing the Kimbell Art Museum)
… between 1966 and 1972 by the architect Louis I. Kahn. This study responds to a series of design related questions raised in the author's mind upon visiting the Kimbell museum on June 22, 2000. The work will evaluate the buildings' major design elements, beginning with the overall site and …
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Luminous Land of Phon
… of nature and are the focus of this study. Louis Kahn once said: "The sun does not realize how wonderful it is until after a room is made." (Source: https://www.quotetab.com/quotes/by-louis-kahn#GdaYdAIrZ8tmvcyh.97) The question of nature is explored in an urban environment to challenge the tired …
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Termination of an axis
… is worthy of an offering to architecture.” Louis Kahn.
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2 Questions: what becomes architecture
… relied heavily upon an essential belief in Lou Kahn's masterful answer to a student's question, because Architecture is. Kahn's spiritual awareness brought about a poetic significance to the studying, learning, and actualizing of our environmental efforts. Through his profoundly simple answer of …
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Narrative light : the design of a monastic retreat
… A narrative use of light is expressed in Louis Kahn's design for the Unitarian Church in Rochester, New York. Kahn employs the light to evoke a sense of roundness within the square central room. By this simple move, Kahn has softened the comers, thus retaining the essence of his initial concept …
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Community School
… circumstances of the man under the tree" Louis Kahn
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The place of transition
… the measurable makes very little difference.” Kahn Transition could be thought of as the only constant—life being in itself a transition, composed of a myriad of inseparable transitions—a continuum of events "taking place." This work imagistically explores the evocative nature of transition …
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The history of the cape Supreme Court and its role in the development of judicial precedent for the period 1827-1910
… the Royal Charter of Justice of 1827, Hahlo and Kahn state that 'within a lustrum the legal institutions of the Cape had been transmogrified’. However a number of important changes had already been made to these institutions in the period preceding the 'lustrum'. It is apparent that the legal …
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An Analysis of Expectation for Principal Behavior in the United States Virgin Islands Educational Documents and the Relationship of Document Importance to Perception of Role Conflict and Ambiguity
… and/or role ambiguity. Based on the work of Kahn, it was hypothesized that if differing expectations existed in critical educational system documents that governed the behavior of principals then these documents would create role conflict and/or role ambiguity--conditions that are …
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An aquatic and racquet center for the Federal City
… and the shadow belongs to Light. Louis I. Kahn¹ I like complexity and contradiction in architecture. I do not like the incoherence or arbitrariness of incompetent architecture nor the precious intricacies of picturesqueness or expressionism. Instead, I speak of a complex and contradictory …
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Civic visions, national politics, and international designs : three proposals for a new urban center in Tehran (1966-1976)
… Associates (1966-70). In late 1973, Louis Kahn was solicited to prepare a proposal, which was never finished as Kahn died in March 1974. This thesis examines these three proposed plans for a new urban center in Tehran. Through a detailed examination of consultancy reports, architectural …
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Investigation of Time-Dependent Deflection in Long Span, High Strength, Prestressed Concrete Bridge Beams
… of elasticity of the studied mix. The Shams and Kahn compressive strength and modulus of elasticity equations were modified in order to approximate measured modulus of elasticity. The creep, shrinkage, and modulus of elasticity equations were used as inputs to an incremental time step method. The …
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A critical analysis of Swaziland's Companies Bill of 2004
… economy, corporate business entities'. Professor Kahn Freund wrote; 'Business organization is in a constant state of flux, and the law cannot hope to keep abreast of developments if it ascribes to its own provisions the quality of immutability' '... Company law is in need of constant revision and …
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An artists' community in Georgetown: a study of the dialectical relationship between the general and the particular in architecture
… of design to adjust to the circumstantial. Louis Kahn The existential purpose of building (architecture) is therefore to make a site become a place, that is, to uncover the meanings potentially present in the environment. Christian Norberg-Schulz
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