Louis I. Kahn (1973)
Lecture, ETH Zurich (published in Light Is the Theme, 1975).
Abstract. Kahn's lecture on the relationship between served and servant spaces, the "what does the building want to be" doctrine, and the design ethic of letting materials' nature inform form. Frequently cited in design-philosophy writing as a model of designerly thinking that resists functionalist reduction.
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