CHAPTER 2 THESIS
CHAPTER 2
REVIEW OF RELATED FOREIGN LITERATURE AND STUDY
I began with architectural studies that connected people and place across multiple scales. Both Carlo Scarpa and Louis Kahn engage in this manner. With the
Fondazione Querini Stampalia and Brion Family Cemetery, Carlo Scarpa provides architecture that expresses the specificity of site and the nature of the client within a broader context. Both exhibit a spatial atonements and social interactivity that resonate in a humanly restorative manner. Scarpa’s attention to materiality and movement fosters a haptic experience that charges these projects with a strong sense of Place. At the Exeter Academy Library, Louis Kahn uses movement, light and material to ritualize the process of academic inquiry pushing it toward personal expression and enlightenment. With this, he establishes both a visceral resonance with the internal volume, and an existential connection between the self and learning.
Fondazione Querini Stampalia - Carlo Scarpa
Carlo Scarpa provides a beautiful example of architecture that connects people with their environment and, also, their social context. He achieves the first through his meticulous use of materials and his attention to the joint in particular. The second is addressed by his involvement of local craftsmanship and keen awareness of local tradition. Moreover, he is moved not from an idea about tactility, but by achieving a full, rich expression of place.
“The joint is treated as a kind of tectonic condensation; as an intersection embodying the whole in the part, irrespective of whether the connection in question is an articulation or a bearing or even an altogether larger linking component such as a stair or a bridge.”
Scarpa uses the joint as the generator of his form. He also uses the joint as the basis of his creative solutions within a particular spatial condition. This arises from his methodology in creative process that moves directly from drafting to making, a process that
REVIEW OF RELATED FOREIGN LITERATURE AND STUDY
I began with architectural studies that connected people and place across multiple scales. Both Carlo Scarpa and Louis Kahn engage in this manner. With the
Fondazione Querini Stampalia and Brion Family Cemetery, Carlo Scarpa provides architecture that expresses the specificity of site and the nature of the client within a broader context. Both exhibit a spatial atonements and social interactivity that resonate in a humanly restorative manner. Scarpa’s attention to materiality and movement fosters a haptic experience that charges these projects with a strong sense of Place. At the Exeter Academy Library, Louis Kahn uses movement, light and material to ritualize the process of academic inquiry pushing it toward personal expression and enlightenment. With this, he establishes both a visceral resonance with the internal volume, and an existential connection between the self and learning.
Fondazione Querini Stampalia - Carlo Scarpa
Carlo Scarpa provides a beautiful example of architecture that connects people with their environment and, also, their social context. He achieves the first through his meticulous use of materials and his attention to the joint in particular. The second is addressed by his involvement of local craftsmanship and keen awareness of local tradition. Moreover, he is moved not from an idea about tactility, but by achieving a full, rich expression of place.
“The joint is treated as a kind of tectonic condensation; as an intersection embodying the whole in the part, irrespective of whether the connection in question is an articulation or a bearing or even an altogether larger linking component such as a stair or a bridge.”
Scarpa uses the joint as the generator of his form. He also uses the joint as the basis of his creative solutions within a particular spatial condition. This arises from his methodology in creative process that moves directly from drafting to making, a process that