What an excellent talk! I really enjoy how this expose of Kahn highlights drawing as thought, and to see corollaries in his understanding of space, form, and light as it translated from his pastel studies to his built works. A really marvelous and thought provoking study of an architectural master.
If there is one thing I remember from this insightful lecture, it shall be this: Kahn brought back the room as the fundamental unit of architectural expression, not flowing space without shape or boundaries (Mies), but a fixed and definite poetic enclosure.
This is about admiring the faults of Kahn, he would not have been the master architect that he became if it were not for his failures. No one is without fault, no one masters without failure. I believe this to be a much more interesting and useful lecture compared to someone rambling on about what great work Kahn did. This serves an accurate picture of who Kahn really was, how he thought, and how his buildings and ideas came to fruition. In order to understand someone you have to understand them at their best and at their worst, this does a great job at doing that.
![Exploring Louis Kahn's LOST Unbuilt Masterpiece [Goldenberg House]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/z6NPxfdYcbQ/mqdefault.jpg)
![Louis Kahn’s Architecture of the Room [Trenton Bath House, Esherick House, Exeter Library]](/img/n.gif)
Kahn one of my favourite engineer.
Stunning talk. Thanks for posting this.
What an excellent talk! I really enjoy how this expose of Kahn highlights drawing as thought, and to see corollaries in his understanding of space, form, and light as it translated from his pastel studies to his built works. A really marvelous and thought provoking study of an architectural master.
brilliant lecture!
Thank you for sharing a very interesting and wonderful video.
Louis, did you happen to stop at the outdoor statue of the late 1890's Yale undergrad student who took his own life?
If there is one thing I remember from this insightful lecture, it shall be this: Kahn brought back the room as the fundamental unit of architectural expression, not flowing space without shape or boundaries (Mies), but a fixed and definite poetic enclosure.
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35 out of 40 min spent on the build-up to Kahn’s best work. Time not well spent.
I’m not enjoying this fellow who seems not be enjoying his subject. I’d rather hear from someone who admires Kahn not one who finds fault in Kahn.
This is about admiring the faults of Kahn, he would not have been the master architect that he became if it were not for his failures. No one is without fault, no one masters without failure. I believe this to be a much more interesting and useful lecture compared to someone rambling on about what great work Kahn did. This serves an accurate picture of who Kahn really was, how he thought, and how his buildings and ideas came to fruition. In order to understand someone you have to understand them at their best and at their worst, this does a great job at doing that.