Louis Kahn with fascinating Anne Tyng both explored in late 50s singular structural models for a tower design based on geometry with triangular mesh into facades, this supposed a visionary statement on architecture concept so valid in the currect times.
Here is a similar concept, a tower which combines modular homes with vertical farms, designed to be build with CLT in India: +
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# 1-Architectural Review v.121 n.724 May 1957, 345 # 2-Architecture D'Aujourd'Hui v. 25 no. 55 Jul 1954, 11 #3-Perspecta 2 1953, 24 #4- Architecture D'Aujourd'Hui 102 Jun 1962, 5
From Thursday, November 8th to Monday, November 12th Houston will have access to some of the most innovative, celebrated and talked about movies of 2018 thanks to the Houston Cinema Arts Festival. The films show across the city and most tickets cost $10 or $12.
Widows is the new film by Steve McQueen (director of 12 Years a Slave)…
Louis Kahn - Fisher house. Pensilvania, United States. 1960-1967
The home is designed as two cubes, primarily of wood, with a stone base. The cubes articulate at a 45 degree angle. The north cube is the “living cube” and has a living room, dining room and kitchen. It has 18 foot-high ceilings. The south cube, or the “sleeping cube,” has four bedrooms, two baths, with a powder room on the first floor. A very functional basement underlies both cubes. We chose cypress for its resilience lo weather and beautiful color. The stone was beige and gray straight-ended pieces from the local Montgomery ville quarry. A prominent feature in this house is the handsome fire place and chimney dividing the living room and the dining room. It forms a massive hemi-cylinder, the flat side with the hearth facing the living room. His drawings are so complete that almost all of the stones are drawn, to illustrate size, shape and positioning. We requested that the mason fit and rout between the stones to give the impression of a dry wall. It is a handsome piece of masonry and perhaps, along with his window seat area, the centerpiece of the house.
Louis Kahn - National assembly building of Bangladesh. Dakha, Bangladesh. 1964-1982
“Even a space intended to be dark should have just enough light from some mysterious opening to tell us how dark it really is” Louis Kahn on light. Louis Kahn looking at His Tetrahedral Ceiling in the Yale University Art Gallery, 1953
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