Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Lambert, Joseph Edward t.l.r. Author's Email Address anon220@vt.edu URN etd-82298-114142 Title 2 Questions: what becomes architecture Degree Master of Architecture Department CAUS Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Robert Dunay Robert Siegle Robert Dorgan chair Keywords
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Date of Defense 1998-09-21 Availability unrestricted Abstract For several years, certain personal efforts relied heavilyupon an essential belief in Lou Kahn’s masterful answer
to a student’s question,
because Architecture is.
Kahn’s spiritual awareness brought about a poetic sig-nificance
to the studying, learning, and actualizing of
our environmental efforts. Through his profoundly
simple answer of architecture’s essential existence, Kahn
suggested that our works could never reach this state of
being (even reason being unable to reach to far), leaving
us only the ability to aspire towards it- with works ever
to it, never with works of it. In the despair of our Mod-ern
response we set to achieve an end worth of it’s rec-ognition
which simply fails to acknowledge that the ques-tion
was one of why, not one of what.
His answer, and it’s suppressive conditions of existence,
is no longer solely acceptable to a student’s question.
To my Master I say, reconception is necessary; the an-swer
requires a more dynamic essence. As it is with the
nature and dynamic flow of all 10,000 things- one can
never exist, though one is always existing; one can never
live , though one is always living, and in our cultural
and social attempts to assimilate and accommodate our
environment- our attempts will never be, only ever be-coming.
In other words, Mr. Kahn, I would like to sup-plicate
and supplement,
because Architecture becomes.
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