Louis Kahn: The Importance of a Drawing

路易·卡恩(1901-74)被公认为上个世纪最重要的建筑师之一，人们对他的长期相关性的认识也在不断增长。卡恩·S的建筑、理论和教学对建筑界产生了深远的影响。然而，他的作品有很大一部分在很大程度上仍未被探索，并为未来的话语和教育学提供了巨大的潜力：他的典范概念和工作过程体现在卡恩档案中保存的数千幅图画中。这个为期四年的项目加入了一个国际专家团队，制作了一个研讨会、一本书和一个展览，这是第一次通过卡恩·S和他办公室的图纸对卡恩·S的设计过程进行全面、系统和批判性的研究。与以前的研究不同，以前的研究只关注建筑作品，只考虑图纸对建筑的照明，而本研究是为了分析卡恩·S的绘画文化，将其作为洞察他的设计智慧和作品的独立来源。这项研究具有重要意义的原因有几个：它不仅将填补关于这位重要建筑师的学术空白，为建筑表现的论述做出贡献；它还代表着对建筑设计作为一门学术学科的系统基础发展的原创性和初步研究；科学意义上的系统性，因此可以独立论证。这项研究旨在展示建筑师如何围绕该学科的S认知力和中介工具，发展出一套内在的知识体系。

Louis Kahn (1901-74) is widely acknowledged as one of the most significant architects of the last century and awareness of his long-term relevance continues to grow. The architectural community has been profoundly influenced through Kahn´s buildings, theory and teaching. Yet there is a significant part of his work that has remained largely unexplored and that holds great potential for future discourse and pedagogy: his exemplary conceptual and working processes as embodied in the thousands of drawings housed in the Kahn archive. This four year project, joining an international team of experts to produce a symposium, book and an exhibit, is the first comprehensive, systematic and critical study of Kahn´s design process through his drawings and those of his office. Unlike previous studies, which have focused on the built work and considered the drawings only insofar as they illuminate those buildings, this study is to analyze Kahn´s drawing culture as an independent source of insight into his designerly intelligence and work. The study is significant for several reasons: it will not only close a large gap in the scholarship on this important architect and make a contribution to the discourse on representation in architecture; it also represents original and primary research toward the development of the systematic bases of architectural design as an academic discipline; systematic in the sense of scientific and thus independently arguable. The research is to demonstrate how architects can develop a métierimmanent body of knowledge around the tools of the discipline´s cognitive force and agency.