CONTENTS
Louis I. Kahn: His Thought, His World 8
Alessandra Latour
I93I The Value and Aim in Sketching 10
I942 "Standards" Versus Essential Space: Comments on Unit Plans for
War Housing I4
I944 Monumentality I8
I953 Toward a Plan for Midtown Philadelphia 28
On the Responsibility of the Architect 53
I 95 3 Architecture and the University 54
I954 How to Develop New Methods of Construction 57
I955 Order Is 58
Two Houses 6o
A Synagogue 61
This Business of Architecture 62
1956 An Approach to Architectural Education 67
Space Form Use 69
I957 Order in Architecture 72
Spaces, Order and Architecture 75
I959 New Frontiers in Architecture, Clam in Otterlo I959 81
I 960 World Design Conference 100
On Philosophical Horizons 100
On Form and Design 102
Marin City Redevelopment 109
I 96 I Form And Design 112
The Sixties: A PI A Symposium on the State of Architecture: Part I 121
Louis I. Kahn 122
Architecture: Fitting and Befitting 140
The Nature of Nature 141
1962 A statement 145
1964 Our changing Environment 153
Talks with students 154
I965 Remarks 191
I966 Address 208
I967 Statements on Architecture 221
Space and Inspirations 224
Twelve Lines 230
I968 Foreword 231
Silence 232
I969 Silence and Light 234
Foreword 246
I970 Architecture: Silence and Light 248
I97I Not for the Fainthearted 258
The Room, the Street, and Human Agreement 263
I972 Architecture 270
I Love Beginnings 285
An Architect Speaks His Mind 293
How'm I Doing, Corbusier? 297
I1973 Thoughts 313
Clearing 316
Poetics 319
I973: Brooklyn, New York 320
I974 Foreword 332
Harmony Between Man and Architecture 333
The Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial 343
Bibliography 346
Index 351