POSTALES INVENTADAS: a: Louis I. Kahn

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2393. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

Dear Mary,

"Monumentality is enigmatic. It can not be intentionally

created." (Louis I. Kahn)

Regards,

2392. Yale University Art Gallery

Dear Edith,

"Consider the momentous event in architecture when

the wall parted and the column became."

(Louis I. Kahn)

Cheers,

2379. Kimbell Art Museum, Library

Querida Cristina,

"La estructura es la proveedora de luz."

(Louis Kahn)

Besos,

2257. Wayne Township, Indiana

Dear Sammy,

The United Arts Center in central Fort Wayne, IN

was the only part built of a more ambitious arts

complex including a philharmonic hall, an art school,

an art museum and more facilities forming a projected

campus of nine buildings. Eventually only the Theatre

of Performing Arts was built due to a lack of funding.

This theater can be seen in the foreground at the center

of this contemporary postcard.

Regards,

2208. Dhaka, Bangladesh

Dear Maria,

"Men came to assemble not for personal gain, but to

touch the spirit of commonness." (Louis I. Kahn)

Sincerely,

2201. The Library. The Phillips Exeter Academy

Dear William,

"This is the place of the books. So you feel the building

has the invitation of books." (Louis I. Kahn)

Sincerely,

2061. The Salk Institute, San Diego, California

Dear Bob,

"Architecture appears for the first time when

the sunlight hits a wall" (Louis I. Kahn)

Sincerely,

2024. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

Dear Robert,

"I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material

as spent Light. What is made by Light cast a shadow,

and the shadow belongs to Light" (Louis I. Kahn)

Best regards,

1877. The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California

Dear Paul,

"A great building must begin with the unmeasurable,

must go through measurable means when it is

designed, and in the end must be unmeasurable"

(Louis I. Kahn)

Regards,
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1630. Kimbell Art Museum. Fort Worth TX

Dear Sybille,

"Design is not making beauty; beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love" (Luis I. Kahn)

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1279. Kimbell Art Museum. Interior. Fort Worth, TX

Querido Miguel Angel,

"Sólo debe ser lo que puede ser y sólo puede ser lo que se
mueve dentro de las condiciones de lo que es."
(José Ortega y Gasset)

Saludos,
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1235. Kimbell Art Museum. Fort Worth, Texas

Querido Juan,

Cuando hace años visité el Kimbell experimenté una sensación de plenitud estética tan fuerte que nunca podré olvidar. Fue en el pórtico de la entrada de este museo donde me hice el selfie (años antes de que se pusieran de moda) que está en mi perfil de este blog. Al marcharme me fui pensando que el edificio tenía algo que trascendía a lo terrenal, a lo puramente material. Aunque Louis Kahn dijo una vez que un edificio es el resultado de inmensas luchas y esfuerzos y no de ningún milagro, yo sigo creyendo que el Kimbell es un extraño prodigio.

Besos hermano,
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1180.The National Assembly Building, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Dear Jonas

"A Form emerges from the structural elements inherent

in the form. A dome is not conceived when questions

arise how to build it" (Louis I. Kahn)

Gratefully yours,
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1122. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Alfred Newton Richards Medical Research Building.

Dear Samuel,

"What, or where, was the source
of his inspiration,
of his judgement?
There will be found
the creative process
of Nature itself"

¿Cuál era y donde estaba la fuente
de su inspiración, de su discernimiento?
En ella encontraremos el proceso creador
de la naturaleza misma.

(Jonas Salk, In memory of Louis I. Kahn)

Happy new year to you!
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