kahn inspiration

two louis kahn quotes that are powerful in their sense of connection to what i am trying to achieve here...

 

‘the school and the dormitories are a unit, like a monastery. corridors are avoided by having deep porches, off all the dormitory rooms, where tea is served and things are discussed. the school is around a court which has in it an amphitheatre. everything here is planned around the idea of meeting.’

– kahn on IIM – ahmedabad.

 

"i think of school as an environment of spaces where is good to learn. schools began with a man under a tree, who did not know he was a teacher, discussing his realization with a few who did not know they were students . . . the existence-will of school was there even before the circumstances of a man under a tree. that is why is good for the mind to go back to the beginning, because the beginning of any established activity is its most woderful moment."

– kahn on the first school