Wednesday, December 8, 2010
The Why?
In architecture according to Kahn, Form is what, design is how. But is it so? I feel that the program and codes are the what. That the form is how. What I mean is this we are told what we are to make, but it is in the forming of it that we realize how it is to be. Lots of buildings can do the same thing, and could be designed the same way. But the how of them is different because of the form. I will rethink and explore this more in depth later.
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Kahn tends to split form-making (or form-finding), from the act of design, which it to engage the perturbant and shapeless "Form" (which is little more than a realization about what might be possible), to the circumstantial aspects of codes, construction technology, cost, and available skill.
ReplyDeleteBut to explore this further, due to technology, is form now a "how" no longer governed by the slipperiness and shallow fantasies of "intuition?"