Dialectics of vision : the voyages of Louis I. Kahn, 1950-59
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1995.
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| author | Morshed, Adnan Zillur |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/687692019-04-09T17:41:56Z Dialectics of vision : the voyages of Louis I. Kahn, 1950-59 Morshed, Adnan Zillur Stanford Anderson. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Architecture. Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1995. Includes bibliographical references (p. 110-115). Kahn's genre of travel sketches offers us a visual basis to map his philosophical meandering. This thesis addresses the sketches produced from Kahn's voyages around the Mediterranean in 1950-51 and 1959 with an aim to understanding the premises that underlie them. During the trips, Kahn conjectured in his graphic oeuvre a dialogical method with the built forms of antiquity. On the one hand, he sought answers to his architectural and epistemological questions to these buildings; at another level, he re-contextualized the buildings in an imagined landscape that would in tum inform his imperatives. The sketches also permit an interesting theoretical commentary as they parallel Kahn's emergence into active architectural career in the fifties. At first encounter, some of them seem to be perplexing, but once extended into the context in which Kahn operated, they reveal an interwoven terrain of concepts that would continuously flower. There is no doubt that in his travel sketches Kahn was fighting a protracted battle about his architecture and that he benefited from the buildings of the past--but mostly at an epistemological level. Kahn raised questions on architecture that could have not been addressed by a formal retrieval of history. In that sense Kahn's travel sketches reappraise and re-propose the lessons of history. by Adnan Zillur Morshed. M.S. 2012-01-30T16:46:56Z 2012-01-30T16:46:56Z 1995 1995 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68769 33337254 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 115 p. application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Architecture. Morshed, Adnan Zillur Dialectics of vision : the voyages of Louis I. Kahn, 1950-59 |
| title | Dialectics of vision : the voyages of Louis I. Kahn, 1950-59 |
| title_full | Dialectics of vision : the voyages of Louis I. Kahn, 1950-59 |
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| title_short | Dialectics of vision : the voyages of Louis I. Kahn, 1950-59 |
| title_sort | dialectics of vision the voyages of louis i kahn 1950 59 |
| topic | Architecture. |
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