Louis Kahn: Modelling Space – The Model as Tool of the Architectural Imagination

路易斯·卡恩：空间建模——模型作为建筑想象力的工具

• 批准号: 428300927
• 负责人: Dr.-Ing. Michael Merrill
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Fachgebiet Gebäudelehre
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/428300927?language=en
• 关键词: Louis; Kahn; Modelling; Space; Model

Today, Louis I. Kahn (1901-74) is widely recognized as one of the most important architects of the past century. Kahn´s buildings, theory and teaching have influenced at least four generations of architects in ways both profound and myriad, and awareness of his long-term relevance continues to grow. This project proposes to research and analyze a significant body of mostly undocumented architectural models and model photos in Kahn´s archive and in other archives. Its goals in doing so are threefold: 1.) To attain a deeper understanding Kahn´s architecture. 2.) To trace - in the name of Design Research - the exemplary design processes that resulted in that architecture. 3.) To contribute research on the model as a tool of the architectural imagination. Preliminary research has revealed how Kahn´s models - which were conceived and used as design tools - were crucial to the development of his mature work and to his evolving conception of architectural space. The project is to build upon the knowledge, insights, and archival findings gained through the preceding four-year DFG project, "Louis Kahn: Drawing, Thinking, Architecture". That project - which enabled the research and analysis of thousands of drawings housed in Kahn´s archive - is the first systematic and critical study of Kahn´s design process through his drawings and those of his office. (See the resulting publication: "Louis Kahn: The Importance of a Drawing", Lars Müller Publis0hers, 2021, 512 pages, 919 illustrations.) While an in-depth study of Kahn´s use of architectural models would be in itself of considerable value, when regarded together with the foregoing study of Kahn´s uses of drawing, it will add up to a uniquely comprehensive survey of a single master architect´s culture of designing. Unlike previous studies, which have focused on Kahn´s built work and considered his models only insofar as they illuminate those buildings, the proposed study seeks to understand Kahn´s use of this design tool as an independent source of insight into his designerly intelligence and work. At the same time, the study sees itself as a attempt to rectify the general paucity of research on the architectural model in the design process. The study of Kahn´s models is significant for several reasons: it will not only close a gap in the scholarship on this important architect and make a contribution to the ongoing discourse on representation in architecture; it represents original and primary research toward the development of the systematic bases of architectural design as an academic discipline; systematic in the sense of transparent and verifiable and thus independently arguable. The research is to demonstrate how designing architects can develop a métier-immanent body of knowledge around the tools of the discipline´s cognitive force and agency.

今天，路易一世。卡恩（1901-74）被公认为是上世纪最重要的建筑师之一。卡恩的建筑、理论和教学影响了至少四代建筑师，影响深远，影响无数，人们对他的长期相关性的认识也在不断增长。该项目建议研究和分析卡恩档案馆和其他档案馆中的大量无证建筑模型和模型照片。它这样做的目的有三个：1）。为了更深入地了解卡恩的架构。2.）的情况。以设计研究的名义追踪导致该架构的典型设计过程。3.）第三章对模型作为建筑想象工具的研究做出贡献。初步研究揭示了卡恩的模型--这些模型被构思和用作设计工具--对他成熟作品的发展和他不断发展的建筑空间概念至关重要。该项目是建立在知识，见解，并通过前四年DFG项目，“路易斯卡恩：绘画，思考，建筑”获得的档案调查结果。该项目-使研究和分析数以千计的图纸容纳在卡恩的档案-是第一个系统和关键的研究卡恩的设计过程，通过他的图纸和他的办公室。(See由此产生的出版物：“路易斯·卡恩：绘画的重要性”，拉尔斯·穆勒出版社，2021年，512页，919幅插图。虽然对卡恩使用建筑模型的深入研究本身就具有相当大的价值，但当与前面对卡恩使用绘画的研究一起考虑时，它将成为对一位建筑大师设计文化的独特全面调查。与以前的研究不同，这些研究专注于Kahn的建筑作品，并只考虑他的模型，因为它们照亮了这些建筑物，拟议的研究旨在了解Kahn使用这种设计工具作为洞察他的设计智慧和工作的独立来源。与此同时，该研究认为自己是一种尝试，旨在纠正设计过程中对建筑模型研究普遍缺乏的情况。对卡恩模型的研究具有重要意义，原因有几个：它不仅将缩小这位重要建筑师的学术差距，并为正在进行的建筑表现论做出贡献;它代表了对建筑设计作为一门学科的系统基础的发展的原始和主要研究;系统性是透明和可验证的，因此是独立的。这项研究是为了展示设计建筑师如何围绕学科的认知力量和机构的工具开发一套知识体系。