{"id":1389,"date":"2016-12-06T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2016-12-06T13:03:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T18:03:00","slug":"louis-i-kahn-order-is-1960","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2016\/1389\/quotes\/louis-i-kahn-order-is-1960\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis I. Kahn: &#8220;Order Is&#8221; (1960)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Design<\/b> is form-making in order<br \/>\nForm emerges out of a system of construction<br \/>\nGrowth is a construction \u2013 <b>In order<\/b> is creative force<br \/>\nIn <b>design<\/b> is the means \u2013 where with what when with how much<\/p>\n<p>The nature of space reflects what it wants to be<br \/>\nIs the auditorium a Stradivarius<br \/>\nor an ear<br \/>\nIs the auditorium a creative instrument<br \/>\nkeyed to Bach or Bart\u00f3k<br \/>\nplayed by the conductor<br \/>\nor is it a conventional hall<\/p>\n<p>In the nature of space is the spirit and the will to exist in a certain way<br \/>\n<b>Design<\/b> must follow closely that will<br \/>\nTherefore a stripe-painted horse is not a zebra<br \/>\nBefore a railroad station is a building<br \/>\nit wants to be a street<br \/>\nit grows out of the needs of the street<br \/>\nout of the order of movement<br \/>\nA meeting of contours englazed.<\/p>\n<p>Through the <b>nature<\/b> \u2013 why<br \/>\nThrough the <b>order<\/b> \u2013 what<br \/>\nThrough the <b>design<\/b> \u2013 how<\/p>\n<p>A form emerges from the structural elements inherent in the form.<br \/>\nA dome is not conceived when questions arise how to build it.<br \/>\nNervi grows an arch<br \/>\nFuller grows a dome<\/p>\n<p>Mozart\u2019s compositions are designs<br \/>\nThey are exercises of order \u2013 intuitive<br \/>\nDesign encourages more designs<br \/>\nDesigns derive their imagery from order<br \/>\nImagery is the memory \u2013 the form<br \/>\nStyle is an adopted order<\/p>\n<p>The same <b>order<\/b> created the elephant and created man<br \/>\nThey are different designs<br \/>\nBegun from different aspirations<br \/>\nShaped from different circumstances<\/p>\n<p><b>Order does not imply Beauty<\/b><br \/>\nThe same order created the dwarf and Adonis<\/p>\n<p><b>Design<\/b> is not making beauty<br \/>\nBeauty emerges from selection<br \/>\naffinities<br \/>\nintegration<br \/>\nlove<\/p>\n<p>Art is a form-making life in order \u2013 psychic<\/p>\n<p><b>Order is intangible<\/b><br \/>\nIt is a level of creative consciousness<br \/>\nforever becoming higher in level<br \/>\nThe higher the order the more diversity in design<\/p>\n<p><b>Order supports integration<\/b><br \/>\nFrom what the space wants to be the unfamiliar way may be revealed to the architect.<br \/>\nFrom order he will derive creative force and power of self-criticism to give form to this unfamiliar.<br \/>\nBeauty will evolve.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Design is form-making in order Form emerges out of a system of construction Growth is a construction \u2013 In order is creative force In design is the means \u2013 where with what when with how much The nature of space reflects what it wants to be Is the auditorium a Stradivarius or an ear Is <a href='http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2016\/1389\/quotes\/louis-i-kahn-order-is-1960\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[306],"class_list":["post-1389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-design-is-good","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}