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Happy Birthday Louis Kahn!

theTracer

Don't ask why I know this.

 
Feb 20, 07 3:47 pm

Jamez are you one of his long lost children?

None the less should we sing a round of "Louis Louis?"

Feb 20, 07 5:48 pm  · 
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Client
Feb 21, 07 9:00 am  · 
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Nevermore

3D H ! !

Feb 21, 07 9:02 am  · 
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PerCorell

No not 3D-H it fail all what define 3D-H. But instead of going into silli detail, try emagine what a difference it would have been , if frames to continue to form the loft foundations would continue up the building to shape the all at one floor, add to the elevator sharft at the next m deliver flors at various hight ,build in furniture --- here thee are a grid to hold a floor , and there are nothing of the sort of newthinking as with 3D-H , the frames don't even meet 90 deg. something that is a must with 3D-H as othervise the framework simply can't be assembled.

Please remember that 3D-H is more than just flat floors or single curved roofs , that it will form the intire structure with walls and floors , not just a floor here and a roof there, 3D-H is much more than that.

Feb 21, 07 10:29 am  · 
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PerCorell

Bside if an architect at that time had realised 3D-H it would not be cast concrete as above, cast concrete would never develob into 3D-H on the way to that, the hippies had to invent the Dome structure, -- the stringer structure that like a mesh form a thin but quite useless shell ,without the basic structure that is what 3D-H offer. --- Either these made that sort of gray strait-edge concrete formwork buildings, or it was useless Domes that later evolved while they worked fine with the computers zero-thixckness mesh entities, Still cast concrete like that was done back 1895 and hippie domes never realy delivered something else than thin walled computer-mesh structures where after the Dome was build, then another house had to be build inside the emty shell.

Feb 21, 07 10:35 am  · 
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PerCorell

Bside if an architect at that time had realised 3D-H it would not be cast concrete as above, cast concrete would never develob into 3D-H on the way to that, the hippies had to invent the Dome structure, -- the stringer structure that like a mesh form a thin but quite useless shell ,without the basic structure that is what 3D-H offer. --- Either these made that sort of gray strait-edge concrete formwork buildings, or it was useless Domes that later evolved while they worked fine with the computers zero-thixckness mesh entities, Still cast concrete like that was done back 1895 and hippie domes never realy delivered something else than thin walled computer-mesh structures where after the Dome was build, then another house had to be build inside the emty shell.

Feb 21, 07 10:36 am  · 
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Client
Feb 21, 07 11:16 am  · 
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JMBarquero/squirrelly

woo hoo!

Feb 21, 07 11:23 am  · 
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Nevermore

Hippie dome ?

Feb 22, 07 2:29 am  · 
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Nevermore

Oh I get it now ..

[jpg]http://www.thefarm.org/museum/theaterdome.jpg[/jpg]

Feb 22, 07 2:35 am  · 
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Nevermore

sorry

Feb 22, 07 2:35 am  · 
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snooker

I was thinking Nervi....the crazy Italian....who knew no limits to span.

Feb 22, 07 3:19 pm  · 
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won and done williams

This is the weirdest happy birthday thread to Louis Kahn ever. I think he would be proud. Or slightly tripped out.

Feb 23, 07 12:49 pm  · 
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le bossman

how old is he?

Feb 23, 07 1:58 pm  · 
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brian buchalski

i think he's still dead

Feb 23, 07 2:05 pm  · 
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post-neorealcrapismist

do you think he had a different birthday celebration with each of his families? working the sytem to get more presents. the man was always thinking

Feb 23, 07 2:11 pm  · 
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Philarch

Definitely, considering how father's birthday presents are so awesome.

"Great, more bow ties... I'll put that next to my brand new razor"

On a serious note - he is still one of my heroes even though he's been gone for 3 decades.

On a random note - you guys ever notice the scene in My Architect where Nathaniel looks jealous of Lou's bow tie that one of his sister inherited?


Happy belated birthday, Louis

Feb 23, 07 3:19 pm  · 
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snooker

i missed that in the movie......

Feb 23, 07 4:28 pm  · 
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