louis i kahn the idea of public decorum

Louis I.KahnThe Idea of Public Decorum

decorum ?

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

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

BUILDING = HUMAN

WILL TO BEDESIRE TO BE

WILL TO EXPRESS

human agreement

The Street is a ROOMBy agreementWhy ?It served a community

A community is a nature result of gathering people.

Therefore the building in the city should serve people purpose.

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 ONHUMAN AGREEMENT

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

CITYHow 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:

a.THE INSPIRATION TO LEARN (PLACES OF STUDY)b.THE INSPIRATION TO MEET (PLACES OF ASSEMBLY)

c.THE INSPIRATION TO EXPRESS (PLACES OF EXPRESSION)

human agreement & public decorum

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.

the room

The room is thePLACE OF MIND

Generative Power ofCONVERSATION

MELLON CENTER YALE ART GALLERY

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

YALE UNIVERSITY

ART GALLERY

MELLON CENTER

KIMBELL ART MUSEUM

SHER-E-BANGLA, NAGORDHAKA, BANGLADESH