The architecture of the unfinished and the example of Louis Kahn

Author

Levine, Neil

Document type

Article (livre)

Language

English

Book title

Fragments : architecture and the unfinished : essays presented to Robin Middleton

Author (monograph)

Bergdoll, Barry (Editor, Collective Author); Oechslin, Werner (Editor, Collective Author)

Source

Fragments : architecture and the unfinished : essays presented to Robin Middleton. 2006, 323-342, 16 ill.

Publisher

Thames & Hudson, London (gbr)

Publication country

United Kingdom

Abstract (en)

Traces the aesthetic of the unfinished since the Renaissance before exploring the example of Louis Kahn's architecture and his concept of the embodiment of incompleteness. Kahn's work demonstrates an historial, psychological, and philosophical interchange of the modern aesthetic of the unfinished with the historic image of the ruin. Argues that his architecture is unique in its elaboration upon the potential multiple meanings of an unfinished appearance.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1945-present -- Architecture -- United States
• Kahn, Louis Isidore, 1901-1974
• Architecture
• Unfinished
• Aesthetics
• Ruins
• Psychology
• Modernism
• United States
• 1900-2000

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1945-présent -- Architecture -- États-Unis
• Kahn, Louis Isidore, 1901-1974
• Architecture
• Inachevé
• Esthétique
• Ruines
• Psychologie
• Modernisme
• Etats-Unis
• 1900-2000

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier20060701-00024229

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