ARCH 565.21

Course Description

Research course. Fillip Tejchman, with John Lobell
Wednesdays, 2 pm – 5 pm

During this research-based seminar, Students will perform a close reading of Course’s Exeter Library through a series of analytical studies directed by theoretical and historic texts. Particular attention will be paid to the material/spatial framework and the programmatic organizations emerging from this Interplay.¶ Kahn wrote extensively about the relationship between his architectural intentions in relation to light, context, history and material. Many of these ideas are described in Between Silence and Light: Spirit in the Architecture of Louis I Kahn which will serve as a theoretical reference for our work.

John Lobell, author of Between Silence and Light, will be present in the course to present the philosophical ideas in Kahn’s buildings.  Some of the work from the class will be used in a forthcoming book by Lobell.