Architectural indulgences or homes for living in?

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Concrete Expressions: New Monumentality, New Brutalism

On Monumentality

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Lewis Mumford, The Culture of Cities (1938)

�Monumentality� in architectural discourse of the 1940s

J.L. Sert, F. L�ger, and S. Giedion, �Nine Points on Monumentality�

Kahn, �Monumentality,� in Paul Zucker, New Architecture and City Planning (1944)

�Monumentality� conclusion (Kahn):

Louis I. Kahn, 1901-1974

Intentions

Map of Europe

Paul Philippe Cret, Main Building, University of Texas, 1933

George Howe and Lescaze, PSFS (Philadelphia Savings Fund Society) - now Hotel Loews, Philadelphia

Louis I. Kahn, Yale University Art Gallery addition, New Haven, Connecticut, 1951-53 Entrance, Chapel Street elevation (south fa�ade)

Kahn, Yale University Art Gallery addition, New Haven, Connecticut, 1951-53 Early perspective sketch from the southeast, showing the existing 1928 building in the foreground and Kahn�s addition

View of New Haven, Connecticut

Kahn, Yale University Art Gallery addition, New Haven, Connecticut, 1951-53 Plan

Kahn, Yale University Art Gallery addition, New Haven, Connecticut, 1951-53 West fa�ade

Kahn, Yale University Art Gallery addition, New Haven, Connecticut, 1951-53 North elevation with glazed curtain wall

Kahn, Yale University Art Gallery addition, New Haven, Connecticut, 1951-53 Exterior views of north elevation

Kahn, Yale University Art Gallery addition, New Haven, Connecticut, 1951-53 Reflected ceiling plan

Kahn, Yale University Art Gallery addition, New Haven, Connecticut, 1951-53 Adath Jerusalem Synagogue, Philadelphia, 1954: geometric archaic forms: triangle circumscribed by circle

Kahn, Yale University Art Gallery addition, New Haven, Connecticut, 1951-53  Interior view of tetrahedrons

Kahn, Yale University Art Gallery addition, New Haven, Connecticut, 1951-53 Stairwell looking up

Kahn, Yale University Art Gallery and Yale Center for British Art

Kahn, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1969-74

Kahn, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1969-74

Kahn, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1969-74 Treated stainless steel panels and glass asymmetrically organized

Kahn, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1969-74 Ground floor plan, typical floor plan, + section

Kahn, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1969-74 Interior perspective of double-height light court

Kahn, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1969-74 Library court

Kahn, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1969-74

Kahn, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1969-74 Interior view of galleries

Kahn, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1969-74

Kahn, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1969-74

Kahn, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1969-74 Interior view of conservation lab

Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, 1959-1965

Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, 1959-1965 Model, Summer 1962

Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, 1959-1965 Laboratories seen from the cliffs

Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, 1959-1965 Ground floor plan of laboratory wings: containing head buildings for office use, oriented toward the ocean; longitudinal rectangular laboratories, and service rooms at the opposite end

Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, 1959-1965 Perspective of Meeting House, 1961

Kahn, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, 1959-1965 Early sketch with vegetation in central courtyard

Kahn, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, 1959-1965 Perspective of courtyard with poplars, before December 1965

Kahn, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, 1959-1965 Study Tower and office interior

Kahn, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, 1959-1965 Study Tower and laboratory wing with stair towers

Kahn, Alfred Newton Richards Medical Research Building, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1965 massing evocative of Tuscan hills + differentiated areas

Kahn, Richards Medical Research Building, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1965 differentiated space + towers with sheltered walkways

Kahn, Richards Medical Research Building, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1965 differentiated space

Kahn, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, State of Gujarat, India, 1962-1974 a complete environment for learning

Kahn, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, State of Gujarat, India, 1962-1974 Guest houses with cylindrical stairwells and view of courtyard with administrative wing on left, library (centre), and auditorium (right)

Kahn, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, State of Gujarat, India, 1962-1974 Fa�ade detail + Interior of Phillips Exeter Academy Library

Kahn, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, 1959-1965 Canal emptying into lower reflecting pool

Jonas Salk Institute, La Jolla (nr. San Diego), California, 1959-65

Kahn�s use of materials

Details: cast-in-place concrete with projecting joints and lead tie-hole plugs (top left); travertine paving stones in central courtyard (top right); concrete structure and oak wood interior door (below left); concrete wall with rainwater scupper at walkway floor along outer edge of labs (below right)

Louis I. Kahn

On New Brutalism

New Brutalism

Alison + Peter Smithson and the Hunstanton Secondary Modern School, Norfolk, England, 1949-54

Gerhardt M. Kallmann, Noel M. McKinnell, and Edward F. Knowles, Boston City Hall, 1969

Paul Rudolph�s Six Determinants of Architectural Form, 1956 �We must learn anew the meaning of monumentality��

Paul Rudolph, Yale School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, Connecticut, 1953

Paul Rudolph, Yale School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, Connecticut, 1953 As seen from the rooftop of an adjacent building

Paul Rudolph, Orange County Government Center in Goshen, New York, 1963-67

McGill University campus, Montr�al

Fleming and Smith, Frank Dawson Adams Building, 1951 Housing Engineering and Geology functionalist, steel-frame, 4-storey blg, with large windows for natural light; bridge

ARCOP, Stephen Leacock Building, McGill University, 1965 ARCOP, a firm contributed to by Affleck, Desbarats, Dimokopoulos, Lebensold, and Sise who were also responsible for the University Centre

Dobush, Stewart, and Bourke, Stewart Biological Sciences, 1965

Stewart Biological Sciences, Dobush, Stewart, and Bourke, 1965 Model

Dobush, Stewart, and Bourke, McLennan Library Building, 1969, and Redpath Library Building, Montr�al

Marshall, Merrett, Stahl, Elliott, and Mill Architects, Burnside Hall, 1970

Education Building, Ellwood, Aimers, and Henderson Architects, 1971

Chadwick, Pope, and Edge Architects, Samuel Bronfman Building, McGill University, 1971

Dobush, Stewart, and Assoc., Rutherford Physics Building, 1977 on the roof there are 2 astronomic observation domes used to study stars

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