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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Louis I. Kahn"”.
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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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An aquatic and racquet center for the Federal City
… casts a shadow, 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 …
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Fairfax County Park Authority sports and recreational facility
… good to learn, good to live, or good to work." Louis I Kahn¹ "A good structural organism worked out passionately in detail and in general appearance is essential to good architecture, structural architecture leads to that synthesis of static—aesthetic activity, technical knowledge and mastery of …
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Architecture and Film
… in architecture, is used as a strong theme by Louis I. Kahn, 'the most poetic of architects' in his Kimbell Art Museum. Similarly, Alfred Hitchcock, renowned filmmaker, utilizes light to distinguish the characters of his movies to create remarkable and sometimes horrifying scenes. This thesis …
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Within the text of Kahn
… published 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 …
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Path and place: a study of architecture, man, and nature
… we know more about what is contained in them. -Louis I. Kahn Ideally, a thesis study in architecture should be made at a personal level of investigation so that a student may develop his or her own ideas and interests and, therefore determine a focus or direction towards an individual …
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On Dancing with Architecture
… - build a theater which has natural light..." Louis I. Kahn "Space and the Inspirations" 1967 Titled "On Dancing with Architecture" and in reference to Merce Cunningham's choreography, this thesis project is the notion of overlaying architecture as a third autonomous layer to the existing ones …
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The art of ambiguity : (experiencing the Kimbell Art Museum)
… executed 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 …
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Architectural form from human nature
… Serge Chermayeff, David A. Crane, Aldo van Eyck, Louis I. Kahn, Peter and Allison Smithson and Robert Venturi are evolving a theory of architecture based on human nature and that the accommodation of human nature is a prime determinate of architectural form and that the nature of the human mind is …
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The Integration of Art, Architecture, and Identity: Alfred Kastner, Louis Kahn, and Ben Shahn at Jersey Homesteads
… (1900-1975), 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 …
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“Architecture of the land”: Louis I. Kahn’s national assembly building complex in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and the construction of a national identity
Louis I. Kahn’s (1901–74) National Assembly Building Complex (constructed 1963–82) in Dhaka, Bangladesh, provides a case study on how the builtenvironment can help in the formation of a nation’s identity in its postcolonial (after 1947) and postindependence (after 1971) eras. My study will …
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A Market for Barcelona
… the desire to express meets the possible' (Kahn) using architectural form. Awareness What is the form? Beginning with the room