Year - 2023, Fall Semester
Type - Advanced Studio (Individual)
Professor - Prof. Mark Cottle
Location - Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Type - Advanced Studio (Individual)
Professor - Prof. Mark Cottle
Location - Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
The phrase “A society of rooms” comes from a speech Louis Kahn gave in the 70s, strongly criticising the dominant paradigm of modernist universal space, epitomised by the free plan, saying that it separated built environment from human experience and social life.
In De Re Aedificatoria, Alberti stated “a building is a form of body, operating at the scale of a room, for an individual; at the scale of a building, for a family; and at the scale of a city, for a community.”
Kahn drew on this line of thought, both formal and social, when he called the street “the room of agreement.”
We, too, have been interested in the room, the building and the city.
Kahn drew on this line of thought, both formal and social, when he called the street “the room of agreement.”
We, too, have been interested in the room, the building and the city.
THE PUZZLE
