| Title |
A Study on the Architectural Concepts,Order and Room of Louis Kahn |
| Abstract |
The aim of this paper is analyze two buildings, the Yale Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Arts designed by Louis Kahn, in terms of its form based on need and desire respectively and examined the architectural concepts applied to them-Order and Room.For the Yale Art Gallery, Kahn, bound bu need, was unable to find out his own solution.Archetypes of Modern expression adopted in the process of solving the need can be found in the workd of Mies and Fuller. Order, which is a concept for investigating the nature of space, had developed from the speculation on the essential characteristics of structures of materials. The Yale Center for British Arts shows the ascendency of desire over need as Kahn's speculation deepens. The characteristics of the later work can be explained by the properties which define Room.In this analysis, Order had a limit of being understood as the structure or the method of plan operation- served and servant space-despite its conceptual abstractness. Room illustrated the characteristics that the space should bear and exemplified the way to characterize the space, making it possible to grasp the definite relations between the concepts and the building. |