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4 Louis I. Kahn – Salk Institute, La Jolla,
California, 1959-65: Colonnade. (Neil Jackson)
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described the importance of the sculpted
ground-plane, in the definition of a significant place. The dramatic
juxtaposition with a hovering roof-form, such as the outside of the Sydney
Opera House and the inside of the Bagsvaerd Church in Copenhagen, displays a
similar Heideggerian preoccupation with the building as an interface between
earth and sky. Norberg-Schulz also wrote on Louis Kahn, in another of his later
essays, discussing particularly his distinctive design approach which is
reminiscent of Husserl’s bracketing. When beginning a project for a school,
Kahn tried to abandon his preconceptions and to rethink the nature of the
institution in terms of its essential characteristics:
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The Norwegian historian, Christian
Norberg-Schulz, has been perhaps the most prolific of these recent writes,
producing a series of works that tries to question the dominant emphasis on
functional norms. He also utilized the concept of genius loci – spirit of the
place – in the book of the same name, subtitled “Towards a Phenomenology of
Architecture”, and he also made use of many of the ideas we have been
discussing. Norberg-Schulz borrows directly from Heidegger’s work on the nature
of dwelling, though he develops the ideas more specifically through the notion
of the “existential foothold”:
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page114from Building Ideas
3 Frank Lloyd Wright –“Fallingwater”, House
for Edgar Kaufmann, Bear Run, Pennsylvania, 1935-39.(Jonathan Hale)
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page113from Building Ideas
2 Frank Lloyd Wright –“Fallingwater”, House
for Edgar Kaufmann, Bear Run, Pennsylvania, 1935-39. (Jonathan Hale)
Architecture
is a vital penetration of a multi-layered, mysterious, evolved and structured
reality. Again and again it d
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