Reading and Film Response: Louis Kahn

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Louis Kahn is certainly one of the most memorable architects of the 20th century in American history. He designed numerous building complexes that are still very impressive to date, certifying the fact that he was surely an architectural ‘guru’. His success as an architect was influenced by several factors. Born and raised during a period commonly termed as The Progressive Era (1900-1917), Khan was able to acquire adequate skills rendered by the art enthusiast during this era ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"ZsDCI45a","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Burton)","plainCitation":"(Burton)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":529,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/IBolxqVE/items/VEASGJMU"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/IBolxqVE/items/VEASGJMU"],"itemData":{"id":529,"type":"article-journal","container-title":"Perspecta","note":"publisher: JSTOR","page":"204–217","source":"Google Scholar","title":"The Aesthetic Education of Louis I. Kahn, 1912-1924","volume":"28","author":[{"family":"Burton","given":"Joseph A."}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["1997"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Burton 204). His complex personality also played a major role in ensuring that Kahn expresses his ideas in a way that is louder than expressed by word of mouth. Most importantly, Kahn was very lucky to have excellent trainers throughout his art education who had varied approaches to art and education: Tadd, Gray, and Cret ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"7ajmtso2","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Burton)","plainCitation":"(Burton)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":529,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/IBolxqVE/items/VEASGJMU"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/IBolxqVE/items/VEASGJMU"],"itemData":{"id":529,"type":"article-journal","container-title":"Perspecta","note":"publisher: JSTOR","page":"204–217","source":"Google Scholar","title":"The Aesthetic Education of Louis I. Kahn, 1912-1924","volume":"28","author":[{"family":"Burton","given":"Joseph A."}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["1997"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Burton 205). I believe that Kahn's success is heavily attributed to the ability to perfectly bind together his trainer's approaches.
Liberty Tadd was a renowned progressive educator who emphasized more on nurturing talents and the ability to learn from the natural environment ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"LkV0rgt2","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Burton)","plainCitation":"(Burton)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":529,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/IBolxqVE/items/VEASGJMU"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/IBolxqVE/items/VEASGJMU"],"itemData":{"id":529,"type":"article-journal","container-title":"Perspecta","note":"publisher: JSTOR","page":"204–217","source":"Google Scholar","title":"The Aesthetic Education of Louis I. Kahn, 1912-1924","volume":"28","author":[{"family":"Burton","given":"Joseph A."}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["1997"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Burton 206). He had a philosophy that learning is attained by doing, and this was demonstrated by his ambidextrous repeated drawings that Kahn went on to emulate ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"LkV0rgt2","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Burton)","plainCitation":"(Burton)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":529,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/IBolxqVE/items/VEASGJMU"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/IBolxqVE/items/VEASGJMU"],"itemData":{"id":529,"type":"article-journal","container-title":"Perspecta","note":"publisher: JSTOR","page":"204–217","source":"Google Scholar","title":"The Aesthetic Education of Louis I. Kahn, 1912-1924","volume":"28","author":[{"family":"Burton","given":"Joseph A."}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["1997"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-langua...