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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DOI
10.12681/eadd/36596
Handle URL
http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/36596
ND
36596
Alternative title
Μελέτη της αρχιτεκτονικής των συναισθημάτων: ο Louis I. Kahn και η δημιουργικότητα του υψηλού - νεωτερικότητα
Author
Papanastasiou, Eleni (Father's name: Anastasios)
Date
2015
Degree Grantor
National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
Committee members
Κούρκουλας Ανδρέας
Τουρνικιώτης Παναγιώτης
Βοζάνη Αριάδνη
Παρμενίδης Γεώργιος
Ξηροπαΐδης Γεώργιος
Κοτιώνης Ζήσης
Leatherbarrow David
Discipline
Humanities and the ArtsArts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)
Keywords
The architecture of sublimity -modernity; The instant and the kinesthetic architectural sublime; The study of modernity via the study of sublimity; Louis Kahn’s aesthetic theory on ‘Beauty’ and ‘Greatness’; Louis Kahn’s modern ethics – aesthetics; Louis Kahn’s Poetic practices of Desire to result in ‘Greatness’; The Salk Institute for Biological Studies as the exemplar of Kahn’s modernity - sublimity; Kahn, Louis Isadore (1901–1974)
Country
Greece
Language
English
Description
xxxii, σ., im., fig., ch., ind.
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