Louis Kahn: Drawing, Thinking, Architecture Architectural Representation, Work Processes and Designerly Knowledge

路易斯·康被广泛认为是上个世纪最重要的建筑师之一。“路易斯·卡恩：绘画，思考，建筑”项目汇集了一个专家团队，通过他的图纸和他的办公室，对卡恩的设计过程进行了第一次全面、系统和批判性的研究。该项目的目的是研究卡恩、他的同事和合作者的原始图纸，以便：1.)更好地理解卡恩的表现方式与他的建筑之间的多种关系；2)反思所获得的知识如何服务于当代设计师思维模式，并为更好的建筑绘画和表现实践和教学做出贡献。DFG的支持使卡恩收藏的研究在深度和广度上都是前所未有的：迄今为止，已有超过20,000张原始图纸被研究。这一全面的概述揭示了有价值的未发表的图纸，产生了不可预见的知识，并为卡恩的设计师智慧提供了重要的见解。同样重要的是：这个概述揭示了新的和发人深省的方法，将图纸汇集在一起，呈现和描述它们，以便使它们所体现的设计知识易于理解。因此，这本书——这个项目的目标——已经被重组和延长了。这样做是为了：1.)传授尽可能多的新知识，2.)通过研究探索新的问题，3.)以新的和刺激的方式呈现和描述图纸，最好地传授他们的设计师知识，4.)编织分析和综合的观点，从而作为设计研究如何既能对实践产生/刺激又能对批判性学术方法开放的模型。具体来说，这意味着增加了一些新的文本文章和大量的“视觉文章”。这本书最初估计有300-320页，现在有420-480页。项目的扩展带来了许多有成就的研究人员/作者，他们承诺显著增加项目的范围、质量和声望。所有这些项目的增加都需要大量的时间用于新的研究、写作、布局和组织，以及对一些作者来说延长的截止日期。为了实现其新目标并充分发挥其潜力，该项目将被迫延长原来的最后期限。意想不到的研究发现，工作的初步成果和研究团队的质量：所有这些都保证了出版物将大大超出最初的预期。扩大后的项目在概念范围和信息内容、教学价值以及对实践和教育的潜在影响方面都有了显著的增加。

Louis Kahn is widely acknowledged as one of the most significant architects of the past century. The project "Louis Kahn: Drawing, Thinking, Architecture" brings together a team of experts for the first comprehensive, systematic and critical study of Kahn´s design process through his drawings and those of his office. The project´s goal is to study the original drawings of Kahn, his associates and collaborators in order to: 1.) better understand the manifold relationships between Kahn´s means of representation and his architecture; 2.) reflect on how the knowledge gained can serve contemporary models of designerly thinking and contribute toward better practice and pedagogy of drawing and representation in architecture. The DFG´s support has allowed research in the Kahn Collection that is unprecedented in both its depth and breadth: to date over 20,000 original drawings have been studied. This comprehensive overview has brought valuable unpublished drawings to light, generated unforeseen knowledge, and given important insights into Kahn´s designerly intelligence. Equally important: this overview has revealed new and thought-provoking ways of bringing the drawings together, presenting, and describing them in order to make the design knowledge that they embody comprehensible. As a result, the book - the goal of this project - has been restructured and lengthened. This has been done in order to: 1.) impart as much new knowledge as possible, 2.) to persue new questions opened through the research, 3.) to present and describe the drawings in new and stimulating ways that best impart their designerly knowledge, and 4.) weave analytic and synthetic views and so to serve as a model of how design research might be both generative/stimulating for practice and open to critical academic method. Specifically, this has meant the addition of several new text essays and numerous "visual essays." The book, originally estimated at 300-320 pages is now to be 420-480 pages long. The expansion of the project has brought with it a number of accomplished researchers/authors, who promise to significantly increase the project´s scope, quality, and prestige. All these additions to the project have required a considerable expenditure of time for new research, writing, layout, and organization, as well as extended deadlines for some authors. To attain its new goals and reach its full potential, the project will be forced to extend beyond the original deadline. The unexpected findings of the research, the first results of the work and the quality of the research team: all these promise a publication that will considerably exceed original expections. The expanded project represents a significant increase in its conceptional reach and informational content, its pedagogic value, and its potential for impact in practice and education.