Volume Zero - The Architecture of Louis Kahn (Transcending History) - Part 1 

CEPT Library is pleased to host the Lecture Series for 4 consecutive Thursdays by Prof. Jaimini Mehta.
Lecture Series by Prof. Jaimini Mehta
Title: Volume Zero - The Architecture of Louis Kahn (Transcending History) - Part 1
Prof. Jaimini Mehta is a practicing architect and an independent academic based in Baroda, India. Graduating from M.S. University with the Prof. M.B. Dave Gold Medal and at Uni. of Pennsylvania in the Studio taught by Louis Kahn in 1965, he went on to work in the offices of Louis Kahn and Mitchell / Giurgola Assoc. In Philadelphia and New York.
Returning back to India in 1975 he established his own practice. As a teacher, he was an Adjunct Professor at Rensselaer Institute at Troy, N.Y. and at CEPT University in Ahmedabad, India. He has also been the Head of the Schools of Architecture at Baroda and Goa. Currently, Hon. Director of the Baroda based “Centre for the Study of Urbanism and Architecture”.
He won the JK Architect of the Year award in the category of Literary Architecture in 2018.
Louis I Kahn
Kahn’s architecture, often monumental with large and geometric openings on the outside, do not always reveal the carefully arrived at articulation of their internal structure. This structural diversity corresponds to a spatial diversity, which is meant to make places of human actions inside and symbolic expression outside. While we enjoy his architecture, Kahn has been challenging to understand as his cryptic and poetic language often conceals his profound desire to locate his architecture beyond the historical evolution, and seek its meaning afresh. At this time, when we are all grappling with the meanings of what we create, a fresh look at the work of Kahn becomes relevant and a renewed source of inspiration.