Day 32 of the 100 Day Studio: In his third talk in the series, Tony Fretton returns to discuss the works of Louis Kahn. Kahn combined exceptional architectural and rhetorical skills. Sometimes his overt poeticisation of a brief seriously detracted from the performance of his buildings. At other times his combination of skills produced buildings of very great architectural merit and comfort. This is the dilemma that architects face, of distorting aspects of a brief to make architectural form or diluting architecture through too greater pragmatism. Kahn understood and thought about that dilemma, and his buildings and words present moments of exceptional quality from which we can always learn.
100 DAY STUDIO
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