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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Louis Kahn"”.
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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 …
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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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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 …
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Termination of an axis
… that is worthy of an offering to architecture.” Louis Kahn.
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Community School
… the circumstances of the man under the tree" Louis Kahn
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An artists' community in Georgetown: a study of the dialectical relationship between the general and the particular in architecture
… role 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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Study and design of a synagogue
… Finally, the design of a synagogue interior by Louis Kahn shows the same concern for light and the formal articulation of space that he brought to his churches and secular structures.
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An Experiential Approach to Architecture: Design of an Architecture School and Student Housing
… be monumental and spiritually inspiring." - Louis Kahn
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Israelizing Jerusalem : the encounter between architectural and national ideologies, 1967-1977
… agents. However, invited luminaries, like Louis Kahn, Bruno Zevi, Philip Johnson and Lewis Mumford, forcefully attacked Jerusalem's modernist masterplan in favor of a spiritual and historical theme for the city. Their criticism became the catalyst for a beautification campaign that …
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Laboratory
… experiential qualities inspired by architects Louis Kahn and Peter Zumthor. The project proposes more laboratories with a better academic research environment combined with more public space for enjoyment beyond the research life. Located at an important strategic site on campus, the building …
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Three paths to Zion
… of religious harmony, to borrow the words of Louis Kahn, will present an urban environment that can serve as "a place of the example". The new district will serve as the headquarters and residency of an institution for ecumenical dialogue called the Nathan Foundation for Monotheism, which will …
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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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'Design with Nature and Culture': The Landscapes of George Erwin Patton
… members of the “Philadelphia School”, namely Louis Kahn and Venturi, Scott Brown, are undoubtedly essential to the trajectory of his career. This thesis will seek to expand the significance of Patton’s work to the projects to his academic landscapes at the University of Pennsylvania and …
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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, …
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Light flight : an orchestrated perception
… by the presence and absence of light. As Louis Kahn puts it, "the shadow belongs to Light. [1]" Daylighting is always an intellection that brings the architects and engineers together to negotiate the trade-offs of an animated daylit experience and its energy footprint. Finding the balance …
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Stepping Back to Move Forward : A Poem Written in Light and Brick
Louis Kahn, the master of modern architecture, said, "Even a brick wants to be something " the phrase explained how important it is to respect the properties and materials, each material has a structure or form that can be the most beautiful to express its essence. The reason that he taught the …
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Searching for Embodied Presence in Architecture
… our innate human behaviors and drives. Architect Louis Kahn once wrote, “A great building, in my opinion, must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasurable.” This is the concern of this thesis: to identify those …
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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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Tectonics in architecture : from the physical to the meta-physical
… the Richards Medical Research Laboratories by Louis Kahn. These are intended to give concrete examples of some of the issues and subjects discussed previously in the thesis. Tectonics is primarily concerned with the making of architecture in a modem world. Its value is seen as being a partial …
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Building community : design in the organizational mind
… with what designers share, the practices of Louis Kahn demonstrate cultivating an 'archi-type'- form containing both cultural and architectural knowledge. To imbue each with 'good' form, the architects collaboratively creating organizational space to direct architectural form and redirect …
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