Imaginary Interview with Louis Kahn: Bomb Magazine

What a wonderful creative piece from a 1992 issue of Bomb Magazine.

EXCERPT Via Bomb Magazine

Reading the words of Louis Kahn 18 years after his death, we find the necessary antidote to the hollow rhetoric of the current situation. This “impossible interview” was compiled by selecting Kahn’s text first. Although the selection was personal and arbitrary, the choices were guided by a need to consider architecture as evidence of the success or failure of man’s institutions. In Kahn’s built work, we are forced to reconsider architecture in terms of a poetic reality that is integral to the material presence of his structures, and through his words, we can approach the source of this powerful magic.

Louis Kahn and his assistants working on Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka, Bangladesh c. 1964. Photo: George Alikakos. All photos courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art, NYC.

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