John Lobell Louis Kahn's Philosophy 

Thanks. Read my book on Kahn, "Between Silence and Light: Spirit in the Architecture of Louis I. Kahn."

Love Kahn’s buildings, the sense of serene order is palpable. Thanks for the interesting discussion.

Very cool ! I am debating a course change from Music to Architecture. And, one of my Major Inspirations has been Khan, whom I just discovered last year. What a brilliant man he was.

Someone said if you try to explain an idea, you may end up killing the idea. So I appreciate how you talk about Kahn stopping and leaving it at 'Order is'.

thank you John for the lecture! regards from an architecture student!

Your making this available for public perusal certainly is a commendable action hopefully inspiring others to do the same. /Architect & Kahn-fan

I am architect from Sri Lanka now live in new York.could u help me to practice architecture in us ..

Thank you very much! I'm an architecture student from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, currently doing some research for an essay on Khan. Your lecture was very inspiring and of great help. Can I just ask you who was the other os the text in the slide at 30:19 , I read somewhere in the internet that It was from your book "Between Silence and Light: Spirit in the Architecture of Louis I. Kahn." (which I don't currently have access to) but I just wanted to be sure before citing.

Great video John, you presented Kahn very well.

very very nice john, good to see your presentation after a long time, this is your student Lukan Alamgir from bangladesh.

Thank you, that was very informative and pleasant to watch. I study these modernist architects because I don't like their work but they are influential. Many of these architects are so concerned with great principles they forget that most of the quality in human life is about small, charming things. Classical monumental buildings have ornament because the charming details give us the feeling that a rich and varied experience can be part of something bigger, while the bigger thing feels rich because of its details. Remove multiplicity from unity and you get boredom and repetition. Remove unity from multiplicity and you get chaos. The big mistake of most modernists, including Kahn, was thinking that removing the ornament would reveal the essence. They killed the essence, the tree of life, by removing its leaves and flowers.

Wow thank you for posting this lecture. it was very informative.

Thank you very much for this lecture - very informative and interesting!

brilliant video essay!

thank you for this!

Very Interesting!

Thanks :-)