Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Architect: Louis I. Kahn

Address: 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, USA

Web:www.salk.edu

Completion:1959-67

science, research

reinforced concrete

Literatura

Louis I Kahn

Phaidon, 2013

1200 Kč

I asked Barragan to come to La Jolla to help me select plants for the Salk Laboratory garden. When he entered the space, he walked over to the concrete walls and touched them, expressing his affectionate relationship with them. Then, as he looked out over the area towards the sea, he said: "I wouldn’t put any trees or blades of grass in this space. It should remain a stone plaza and not a garden." I looked at Dr. Salk, and he looked at me, and we both knew that fundamentally he was right. When he felt our agreement, he joyfully remarked: "If you make this a paved space, you'll have a facade - and that will be the sky."

Lou K.

Architecture has no presence. Work is the offering of sacrifices to the Sanctuary. The paths of life reveal the nature of Man by invoking forces of anticipation in singularities, renewing the desire to be, to express oneself. Work is done amid the encouraging sounds of industry, and when the dust settles, the echo of the silence of the pyramid gives the sun its shadow.

Lou K.

Fourteen days before you, people from Gehry's office brought some Siza - also from Europe. I am not an architect, so I let him educate me. He simply knew what, why, and how it is.

Guide Ian Mullin to Peter Šmídko

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