This is Nathaniel Conn's memory of his father's career and life, the son of the famous Philadelphia architect Louis I. Conn. Lewis designed many famous buildings during his lifetime, including Shaq College and the Congress of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. The mansion, who died of a heart attack in the Penn Station restroom in New York in 1974, is widely regarded as one of the most influential architects of the last century. Louis had three different family lives, he lived with his wife and his daughter with his wife, and he had two lovers, each with a child, one of them was Nathaniel Conn, when the father went Nathaniel was only 11 years old when he died.
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Extended Reading
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Heath 2022-06-14 21:28:20
"You rarely meet someone who presents matter in a spiritual way. He is very concerned with that sense of nothingness, very concerned with silence, very concerned with mysterious light. This is not a conventional statement, it is not a conventional elaboration, which is what we What fascinates him is what he likes to discuss. When someone understands this, he must not be an ordinary person, he must have an enlightened soul, we call him a teacher, we call him a practitioner.” at Night in Berlin
My Architect quotes
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Louis Kahn: A work of art... is not a living thing... that walks or runs. But the making of a life. That which gives you a reaction. To some it is the wonder of man's fingers. To some it is the wonder of the mind. To some it is the wonder of technique. And to some it is how real it is. To some, how transcendent it is. Like the 5th Symphony, it presents itself with a feeling that you know it, if you have heard it once. And you look for it, and though you know it you must hear it again. Though you know it you must see it again. Truly, a work of art is one that tells us that Nature cannot make what man can make.
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Louis Kahn: When you want to give something presence, you have to consult nature. And there is where design comes in. If you think of brick, for instance, you say to brick, "What do you want, brick?" And brick says to you, "I like an arch." And if you say to brick, "Look, arches are expensive, and I can use a concrete lintel over you. What do you think of that, brick?" brick says, "I like an arch."
[Students laugh]
Louis Kahn: And it's important, you see, that you honor the material that you use. You don't bandy it around as though you said, "Well, we have a lot of material around. We can do it one way, we can do it another." It's not true. You can only do it if you honor the brick, and glorify the brick, instead of just shortchanging it.