Design Approach

Design approach

Louis Kahn, Frank Lloyd Wright and Adolf Loos convey a very different impression in their architecture works.

Kahn's

• Appear to be perfected, confined and complete.

• Philosophical and ethereal.

• Kahn

• Light as "…the giver of all presences,'...Light enabled people to see and experience space and structure..." Light – is literally light, in the sense of the Sun.

Wright's work

• Appear to be alive and expanding.

• Is tangible and earthly

• Nature as the ruling principle. It is the source and measure.

• He considered nature to be a process and a source out which architecture could rise.

• Nature as the essence of his architecture.

Loo's

• Rationalism: reason should determine the way things are built

• Functionalism: Form follows function

• Form and material take centre stage in the absence of ornamentation. His interiors are expressed with the richness of materials.

• Retain the respect for ancient architecture' which expressed in the regular use of classical architectural elements.

Intent

Wright

• The world to be nature and culture could achieve harmony.

• It is nature and harmony is the giver of life.

Kahn

• "what is has always been"

• Spiritual - Express the relationship between the man, his work, and the world; expresses the harmony between nature, culture, and man

Loo's

• Reduction of ornamentation: Adolf referred to ornamentation as a crime, a sign of backwardness because it is wasteful in terms of manpower, production time, material, and cost.

Form

Wright

• The principles of order and unity in nature; order gave life its form and unity gave form its life.

• The relationship between natural forms and geometry based on his observations of nature.

• His observations of nature stimulated his though concerning order and geometry, as well as his notions of integration and continuity.

• is the composition of the whole from its constituent parts, each part existing both independently and as part of the whole.

• Order – as an architectural determinant, and he considered the establishment of a geometric system. The nature law.

• drew from the natural landscape - "it is in nature of any organic building to grow from its site, come out of the ground into the light''

Kahn

• Form is the nature of something

• Form is the ordering of architecture spaces. Form is the revelation of spiritual order, and design its disclosure

• Order is the embodiment of all the laws of nature, the giver of presences

• Order determines the way things interact, establishing the relationship between things; through order things achieve balance and harmony

• The foundation for the structural framework which create the spaces for the use and joining of materials to create the structure, and for the process of the construction which creates architecture

• The law of nature work in harmony with each other. Order is this harmony

• Order creates the potential for harmony among the space of the building.

• Structure is the maker of light because the structure releases the spaces between and that is life-giving.

• Structure, space and light are inseparable

• Order is nature's means, but order is in itself not a thing, yet order makes structure possible.

• Any process invariably leaves it marks on the building, various joints and seams, marks which detail the history of the process,