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Omari 2022-12-30 10:40:45

My Architect

My Architect

I admit, my motivation to watch this documentary is quite intentional as I need to find some resources to get my goddamn paper down. Then, this artistic and sentimental peice totally blew my mind away. I like the way how Nathaniel relate Louis Kahn's masterful architectures to his chaotic private lives and finally presents a vivid and janus-faced Louis, who insisted his artisty in architecture while showing his constant interests in women.

Interesting to notice that almost every interviewer couldn't help crying when they talked about Louis. Those scenes are heartwarming and make the whole piece even more emotional - maybe that is the right way to appreciate this film - it is just son's sincere memorial toward to his famous father. Moreover, in this spiritual journey, he found out more things rather than the facts about his father. Like he said in the end, "I felt at the moment, I was settled and eventually rooted".

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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.

  • 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.

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