Poética em arquitetura. O arquiteto e as tendências: a obra de Louis Kahn no século XX.

Abstract

The production of the architect Louis Isadore Kahn (1901-1974), as evidenced in the teaching and discussion of architecture in the United States in the second half of the Twentieth Century, allows the correlation between poetic’s trend and poetic’s author in architecture. His projectual activity, located on the threshold among the periods that the current historiography and criticism hesitate to classify actually as Modern and Post-Modern Architecture, contrasts author and trend. Modifications between the architectural trends of the Twentieth Century that indicate moments of changes in the expression forms in art and architecture are studied. These changes may occur in the same period or extrapolate its limits, characterizing the development of another artistic trend, or even the highlight of an arti st into the trend. The practice of an architect may or may not conform to the architectural trend that includes him. The hypotheses are that: a) aesthetically tenses situations can reveal transformations and variations in the architectural poetics, and b) considering the Kahn's position in the history of architecture, his production assumes a poetic of “author”. Constructed buildings of the last stage of his career will be analyzed. The production of theorists, historians and critics of architecture are sources to this analysis and to the examination of changes in architectural conception of the architect and his projectual method, as dimensions of his poetic constitution. His own theoretical texts were also be reviewed because expose his thoughts and speech . Moreover, will be discussed underlying theories from projectual gestures that can show the changing role of the individual artist in relation to a trend, or indicate his position on it.