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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