When we think of the great buildings of the past that had no precedent, we always refer to the Parthenon. We say it is the building that grew out of the wall with an opening. We can say, in the Parthenon, light is the space between the columns; a rhythm of light, no-light, light, no-light which tells the tremendous story of light in architecture that came from the wall.
We are simply extending what happened long ago; the beginning may be considered the most marvelous; without precedent yet its making was as sure as life.
Light is material life. The mountains, the streams, the atmosphere is spent light.
Material, non-conscious, moving to desire; desire to express, conscious, moving to light, meet at an aura threshold where the will senses the possible. The first feeling was of Beauty, the first sense of harmony, of man undefinable, unmeasurable and measurable material, the maker.
At the threshold, the crossing of silence and light, lies the sanctuary of Art, the only language of man. It is the treasury of the shadows. Whatever is made of light casts a shadow. Our work is of shadow. It belongs to light.
Quoted from: Louis I. Kahn: The Room, the Street and Human Agreement. In: Alessandra Latour (ed.): Louis I. Kahn – Writings, Lectures, Interviews. Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 1991.
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