Louis I. Kahn, el paisaje telúrico y las maquetas de arcilla
ISSN: 2173-1616, 2171-6897
Year of publication: 2016
Issue Title: Maquetas
Issue: 15
Pages: 84-99
Type: Article
More publications in: Proyecto, Progreso, Arquitectura
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Abstract
Kahn always had a special connection with landscape, recognizable in his drawings and paintings from early on, especially in his travel sketches. He forged the idea of a telluric landscape, formed by terrain sculpting along with architecture; to work on this and transmit it, he would find a most effective tool: clay models. These distinctive models came into existence in 1961, when he collaborated with the sculptor Isamu Noguchi on the Levy Memorial Playground. From then on, clay would be ubiquitous in the large-scale models in Kahn's office; he approached and materialized his general ideas in them. These clay mock-ups reflect how he linked his purposes to landscape, to orography, and to the underlying order that his architecture establishes with the site, expressed through what we could call proto-buildings. Working with clay would also reflect a deeper significance culled from his travels in India, which connected it to the more atavistic meaning of those cultures through the work of removing and accumulating earth: a telluric landscape where mankind imposes the stamp of its presence.
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