| Title |
A Study on the Characteristics of the Ruins in Louis Kahn's Architecture |
| Authors |
Park Kyu-Hwan ; Lee Dong-Eon |
| Keywords |
Ruins ; Experience ; Qualitative Thought ; Inquiry ; Totalization ; Unification ; Transaction |
| Abstract |
The purpose of this study is to confirm the structure and the meaning of Louis Kahn's 'qualitative thought' of the ruins' experience on the basis of John Dewey's theory of qualitative thought. Kahn had established his own architectural world by the experience of the ruins in his second travel of Europe(December, 1950～February, 1951). This was due to Kahn's qualitative thought of the ruins. Qualitative thought is the contemplation of the uncertain quality of the primordial experience in order to internalize the meaning of that experience. It needs the reflective thought or inquiry process. For the certain internalization and understanding of the quality inherent in experienced ruins, Kahn had contemplated reflectively the unmeasurable quality of the ruins and his architectural world can be defined as a result of this reflective thought. The conceptual process of this thought is 'The nature of space-Order-Design', 'Form-Design', 'Silence and Light', 'Two brothers'. Kahn's qualitative thought of the ruins shows the structure of hermeneutics circle and the characteristics of this thought are Totalization, Unification, Transaction. The meaning of Kahn's qualitative thought of the ruins is that he broadened the new horizons of the creative possibilities of the ruins. |