TY - JOUR
T1 - Things in their best order
T2 - Technical aspects of the Salk Institute and their role in its design
AU - Leslie, Thomas
N1 - Funding Information:
This project has been funded by a Science, Technology, and Society grant from Iowa State University.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - This paper explores the integration of engineering, function and space in the Salk Institute for Biological Studies at La Jolla, California, USA, by Louis Kahn (1959-1967). While traditional interpretation has focused on the Salk's courtyard as a space of uncanny emotional power, this study suggests that the power of this space derives in part from the intensity of Kahn's attention to systems, materials and methods. Using drawings and project correspondence from the Louis I. Kahn archives at the University of Pennsylvania, the paper suggests an alternative understanding of Kahn's work as empirical, evolutionary, and based as much in the prose of engineering as in the claimed poetics of architecture.
AB - This paper explores the integration of engineering, function and space in the Salk Institute for Biological Studies at La Jolla, California, USA, by Louis Kahn (1959-1967). While traditional interpretation has focused on the Salk's courtyard as a space of uncanny emotional power, this study suggests that the power of this space derives in part from the intensity of Kahn's attention to systems, materials and methods. Using drawings and project correspondence from the Louis I. Kahn archives at the University of Pennsylvania, the paper suggests an alternative understanding of Kahn's work as empirical, evolutionary, and based as much in the prose of engineering as in the claimed poetics of architecture.
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U2 - 10.1080/1360236032000068460
DO - 10.1080/1360236032000068460
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:65849393884
SN - 1360-2365
VL - 8
SP - 95
EP - 113
JO - Journal of Architecture
JF - Journal of Architecture
IS - 1
ER -