3.1 ‘Society of Room’ - Louis Kahn
Architecture can provoke strong emotions and experiences just like poems. Louis Kahn talks about buildings as societies of rooms, architecture comes from the making of a room. Kahn researched the essence of a building is by meeting the most basic human desires that are demanded in creation. He believed this is the only natural way of developing a fully functioned room.
Figure 25: Making of A Room, Louis Kahn
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Kahn elaborated this concept in his designs, “The room is the beginning of architecture. It is the place of the mind. You in the room with its dimensions, its structure, its light respond to its character, its spiritual aura, recognizing that whatever the human proposes and makes becomes a life”, as he stated. This can be understand as the room is a place inhabited by the mind, to self-reflect.
