A study on the architecture of emotions: Louis I. Kahn and the practice of sublimity - modernity
Abstract
The thesis is about the architecture of the sublime on behalf of Louis Kahn; the ‘sublime’ refers to a contradictory emotion in the form of an instant, paralyzing reaction of pain & pleasure, induced by ‘inexplicable’ perceptive stimuli. Since the ‘sublime’ is an emotion, the attention is displaced from the study of buildings ‘as the end purpose of the architect’ to their study ‘as the architect’s devices for the production of emotions’. Such displacement of attention attacks the problem of the architect’s creativity in full complexity, the creativity that determines the intellectual and emotional, fathomable and unfathomable, immediate experience of his buildings. A case- specific study on Architectural Sublimity is introduced for two additional urgent reasons. a) Architectural theory generated a gap in the knowledge of its major interest on Modernity, by overlooking the architecture of the ‘sublime’. ‘Modernity’ refers to something ‘yet unknown’, while the ‘sublime’ is by definition ...
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