The Mystical Monumentality (Or Monumental Mysticism) Of Louis Kahn

Martin Filler: “How odd that the towering genius of architecture during the third quarter of the twentieth century – when his most conventionally successful colleagues prized innovation over tradition, analysis over intuition, and logic over emotion – was a mystically inclined savant who sought to reconnect his medium with its spiritual roots. Indeed, he ran wholly counter to prevailing images of the modern architect.”