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

Ahmed Abdulaziz Safia Abdulaziz Madona Shamoon Detia Kartika Tungga

Biography
Masterpiece Design Approach, Style & Analysis Significance of Geographical & Political Concept Architects who influenced Kahns works Quotes

Biography
Born :February 20, 1901 Died :March 17, 1974 (aged 73) Nationality :American Influenced :Muzharul Islam Awards :ALA Gold Medal, RIBA Gold Medal Projects :Center of Philadelphia, Urban and Traffic Study Buildings: Jatiyo Sangshad Bhaban Phillips Exeter Academy Library Kimbell Art Museum

Graduated from University of Pennsylvania (1924)

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University Art Center New Haven, USA (1951-1954)

Trenton Bath House, Ewing, New Jersey (1954-1955)

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Richards Medical Center Philadelphia, USA (1957-1962)

Jonas Salk Institute of Biological Studies La Jolla, California (1959-1967)

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1962

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India (1962-1974)

National Assembly Hall Dhaka, Bangladesh (1962-1983)

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Philips Exeter Academy Library (1965-1971)

Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth, Texas (1966-1972)

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1969
Yale Center for British Art (1969)

Trenton Bath House (1954-1955)

Plans & Drawings:

http://kahntrentonbathhouse.org/bathHouse2.htm

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 Management Ahmedabad, 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

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National Assembly Hall- Dhaka, Bangladesh (1962)

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Entrance hall Assembly Chamber Prayer Hall Offices Ministers Lounge Dining and Recreation Ablution Court

Plan of National Assembly Hall

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 Kahns work: 1) The Sense of Composition 2) Reverence of material 3) Sense of room plan a society of rooms 4) Light as a maker of architecture 5) Architecture of Connection

Kahns Style
1. Complex spatial compositions and mastery of light 2. Archaic beauty and powerful universal Symbolism 3. Kahns 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) Kahns spatial concepts were ideas above and beyond their designated functions

5) Kahns 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) Kahns 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.

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"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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