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Louis I Kahn The Idea Of Public Decorum
- 1. Louis I.Kahn The Idea of Public Decorum
- 2. decorum ?
- 3. DECORUM = Appropriateness the suitability of a building’s design and was a commonplace principle of architectural theory from the Renaissance to the beginnings of modernism
- 4. decorum in architecture had a meaning as the sense of expression as a social order, in which building should be rhetorical, in hierarchy and always presumed an audience vitruvius
- 5. BUILDING = HUMAN WILL TO BE DESIRE TO BE WILL TO EXPRESS
- 7. The Street is a ROOM By agreement Why ? It served a community A community is a nature result of gathering people. Therefore the building in the city should serve people purpose.
- 8. THE ROOM IS THE BEGINNING OF ARCHITECTURE THE PLAN IS A SOCIETY OF ROOMS A LONG STREET IS A SUCCESSION OF ROOMS A LONG STREET IS A SUCCESSION OF ROOMS THE CITY IS A PLACE OF ASSEMBLED INSTITUTION THE ROOM & PLAN, THE STREET & CITY = INSTITUTIONS BASED ON HUMAN AGREEMENT
- 9. Architecture & Human Agreement = the social nature of humanity = architecture as supportive of this nature and which each individual could realize a greater degree of worth
- 10. CITY How to measure a city ? The degree or the quality of the AVAILABILITIES CITY AS the place of the assembled institutions CITY AS something ‘measured by the character of its institution ’ INSTITUTION ? = availabilities = INSPIRATIONAL SOURCES: THE INSPIRATION TO LEARN (PLACES OF STUDY) THE INSPIRATION TO MEET (PLACES OF ASSEMBLY) THE INSPIRATION TO EXPRESS (PLACES OF EXPRESSION)
- 11. human agreement & public decorum
- 12. HUMAN AGREEMENT PUBLIC DECORUM BUILDING DESIRE INTERPRET & UNDERSTAND BY COMMUNITY Since Human Agreement is based on community and the buildings is a servant for the community, it is obvious when the buildings successfully served and answer people needs and desires, and the buildings will become the part of decorous city.
- 13. the room
- 14. The room is the PLACE OF MIND Generative Power of CONVERSATION
- 15. MELLON CENTER YALE ART GALLERY
- 16. SERVANT & SERVED SPACE ‘ I do not like ducts; I do not like pipes. I hate them really thoroughly, but because I hate them so thoroughly, I feel they have to be given their place . If I just hated them and took no care, I think they would invade the building and completely destroy it.’ Wurman, Richard Saul., The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn , 1962
- 19. YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY
- 27. MELLON CENTER
- 37. SHER-E-BANGLA, NAGOR DHAKA, BANGLADESH