11 November
1896 birth of Victor Emmanuel III
1976 death of Alexander Calder
1992 death of Giulio Carlo Argan
1994 beating of Eddie Polec
agenda
1997.11.11
Kahn as anti-modernist
1999.11.11 10:38
German-Hungarian Club
St. Michaels Catholic Church
Options Lighting Company
Vox Populi
2000.11.11
more vehicles than roads
2000.11.11
Re: Louis Kahn's son
2001.11.11 12:54
011111a.db Basilica Sessorianum 3D and perspective
sketching and design
2001.11.11 20:32
list of lovers
2001.11.11 20:42
things architecturalized
2001.11.11 20:48
positioning Étant Donnés [wavelengths]
2002.11.11 14:09
Re: Banker to offer art work for auction
2002.11.11 16:10
2002.11.11 07:26
Re: Bear Necessities: The Art of Rachel Harrison
2002.11.11 20:20
Little Jeff Cocoons
2003.11.11
MISTY.JPG
2003.11.11 17:06
Webb, Wast,Wast, Warner
2006.11.11 17:17
The End of Boxes
2007.11.11 16:10
2007.11.11 17:30
Nudity and Architecture
2007.11.11 16:16
2007.11.11 16:44
It rocked Eisenman on his chair...
2007.11.11 17:08
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Kahn as anti-modernist
1999.11.11 10:38
I tried to find my old photocopy of "Old Mode or New Manner" but it is not to be found. I fear it fell victim to one of my sporadic paper purges.
From what I remember, one of the Kahn buildings analyzed in McBride's article is the AFL-CIO Medical Service Building 1954-56. Unfortunately, this building was demolished in 1973, and doubly unfortunate because the building was indeed unusual in terms of how we remember Kahn's work. Looking at photographs of the building now, it appears latter-day 1990s--kind of Koolhaas, kind of Herzog & de Meuron--but pure Kahn (of the 1950s) nonetheless. The AFL-CIO building is a little after Kahn's Yale Art Gallery (1950-53), but seems prescient of Kahn's Yale Center for British Art (1969-74) (across the street from the Yale Art Gallery).
I now wonder whether the analyses within "Old Mode or New Manner" are likewise evocative of some of the issues within present day architectural design.
If nothing else, I like how Kahn's AFL-CIO building is now completely 'transparent', and I like the irony (inversion?) that an article about transparency was considered (and in fact may actually be) dense.
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Maybe Kahn as anti-modern really means that Kahn was (as is often the case) ahead of his time.
Louis I. Kahn, AFL-CIO Medical Service Building, 1954-56 (demolished).
Kahn's AFL-CIO Medical Service Building was in Philadelphia, on the south side of the 1300 block of Vine Street.
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