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Yale University, School of Architecture
Architecture is the Thoughtful Making of Spaces
Author(s): Louis Kahn
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Source: Perspecta, Vol. 4 (1957), pp. 2-3
Published by: The MIT Press on behalf of Perspecta.
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Architecture is the thoughtful making of spaces
Reflect on the great event in architecturewhen the walls parted and columns became.
It was an event so delightful and so thought-wonderful that from it almost all our life in architecture stems.
The arch, the vault and the dome mark equally evocative times when they knew what to do from how to do it and how to do it from what to do.
Today these form and space phenomena are as good as they were yesterday and will always be good because they proved to be true to order and in time revealed their inherent beauty.
In the architecture of stone the single stone became greater than the quarry. Stone and architectural order were one.
A column when it is used should be still regardedas a great event in the making of space. Too often it appears as but a post or prop.
What a column is in steel or concrete is not yet felt as a part of
Architecture is the Thoughtful Making of Spaces
Author(s): Louis Kahn
Reviewed work(s):
Source: Perspecta, Vol. 4 (1957), pp. 2-3
Published by: The MIT Press on behalf of Perspecta.
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1566850 .
Accessed: 21/01/2013 18:06
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This content downloaded on Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:06:48 PM
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Architecture is the thoughtful making of spaces
Reflect on the great event in architecturewhen the walls parted and columns became.
It was an event so delightful and so thought-wonderful that from it almost all our life in architecture stems.
The arch, the vault and the dome mark equally evocative times when they knew what to do from how to do it and how to do it from what to do.
Today these form and space phenomena are as good as they were yesterday and will always be good because they proved to be true to order and in time revealed their inherent beauty.
In the architecture of stone the single stone became greater than the quarry. Stone and architectural order were one.
A column when it is used should be still regardedas a great event in the making of space. Too often it appears as but a post or prop.
What a column is in steel or concrete is not yet felt as a part of