LOUIS I KAHN

MOHD YUSUF
B.ARCH 3rd year (A)
ROLL NO-1090100104
LOUIS I KAHN
Early Training of Louis I. Kahn:
University of Pennsylvania, Bachelor of Architecture, 1924
Worked as a senior draftsman in the office of Philadelphia City
Architect John Molitor.
Travelled through Europe visiting castles and medieval strongholds,
1928
WORK

BUILDINGS
 THE SALK INSTITUTE

The Salk Institute is a research facility for biological studies located

outside of Sad Diego, California. It is widely considered as Louis
Kahns first masterpiece

Early sketch of courtyard by Kahn

The institute features a fountain

that acts as an axis of symmetry.
It runs perpendicular to the sea
and deposits into a lowered A place that is lost in the horizon
basin between sky and sea.
 THE SALK INSTITUTE

THE SALK INSTITUTE

La Jolla, California, completed in 1965, was to be a campus composed of
three
Main clusters: meeting and conference areas, living quarters, and
laboratories. Only the laboratory
cluster, consisting of two parallel blocks enclosing a water garden, was
actually built.
The two laboratory blocks frame an exquisite view of the Pacific Ocean,
accentuated by a thin linear fountain that seems to reach for the horizon
In August 1963, Kahn received a telegram from the Pakistani
department of public works.

The project was designed in two phases. The first phase included the
National Assembly Building, a prayer hall, and dormitories. With the
expectation that eight hundred more acres would be acquired, the
complete master plan included courtrooms, a hospital, a museum,
schools, and low- and high-income residential areas. This lesson
examines Kahns process of designing a ceremonial building that was
to serve as a political and spiritual symbol for a community.
 National Assembly Building
Bangladesh

National Assembly Building of Bangladesh, Dhaka or

(Jatiyo Sangshad Bhaban)
 National Assembly Building,
Bangladesh

SECTION

PLAN

SKETCH
 The Spirituality of Matter National Assembly Building,
Bangladesh

Exterior Prayer Hall The structures were built by hand, with workers
carrying concrete on their heads up and down
bamboo scaffolding, and they were not completed
for twenty-three years.
Kahn and his team also considered the placement
of the structures within the cardinal (directional)
points. Eventually they decided to shift the Prayer
Hall east, to face toward Mecca, a city in Saudi
Arabia considered to be the spiritual centre of
Islam because it is the birthplace of the Prophet
Interior Prayer Hall, Mohammed.
 LOUIS I. KAHN

Louis I. Kahn 1971. The Architectural Dome for skylight

Archives, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia.

The Process of Design

Form precedes Design. Form is what. Design is how. . . .

Design gives the elements their shape, taking them from their
existence in the mind to their tangible presence. . . . In
Architecture, it characterizes a harmony of spaces good for a
certain activity.
 LOUIS ISADORE KAHN

PHILOSOPHY OF WORK

Architecture? The Power of Drawing,

The Process of Design, Form and Function,
LIK The Spirituality of Matter, and Designs for
Urban Life.

The only way you can build, the only way you can get the
building into being, is through the measurable. You must follow
the laws of nature and use quantities of brick, methods of
construction and engineering. But in the end, when the building
becomes part of living, it evokes immeasurable qualities and the
spirit of its existence takes over.
 EXETER LIBRARY

Phillips Exeter Academy is a private secondary school located in

Exeter, New Hampshire, in the United States
with 160,000 volumes on nine
levels and a shelf capacity of
250,000 volumes, is the largest
secondary school library in the
world

EXETER LIBRARY

INTERIOR DOME
ATRIUM
 Unitarian Church

The non-creedal church conducts programs

in the areas of spirituality, social concerns,
music and arts

First Unitarian Church in Rochester, New York (1959)

 LOUIS I. KAHN

BIBLIOGRAPHY

http://www.google.co.in/imgres?q=NATIONAL+ASSEMBL
Y+BUILDING+IN+DHAKA
Louis I. Kahn Archives, University of Pennsylvania
and Google Earth).

sources (UT Library):

Book:
Brownlee, David B., David G. De Long, and Vincent J. Scully.
Louis I. Kahn. Grand Rapids: Universe, 1997. 330-339.

http://www.google.co.in/search?q=UNITARIAN+CHURCH
 LOUIS I. KAHN

Architecture is the thoughtful making of spaces. It

is the creating of spaces that evoke a feeling of
appropriate use.

THNQ.