An analysis of daylighting in the works of Alvar Aalto and Louis I. Kahn

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dc.contributor.advisorWaldman, Peteren_US
dc.creatorPeters, Patrick A.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-04T00:29:31Zen_US
dc.date.available2009-06-04T00:29:31Zen_US
dc.date.issued1989en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis focuses on the manner in which two contemporaries, Alvar Aalto and Louis I. Kahn, each recognized the potential for and developed techniques toward the realization of daylighting's efficacy for the clarification of the architect's spatial concept. Although the architectural responses of these two architects differed greatly, common tendencies may be found to underlie the work of both. While in Aalto's case, the architect's interest in daylighting initiated with an investigation of functional illumination, and in Kahn's case, began with an investigation of spatial characterization, the interest of each matured toward the pursuit of a compound daylighting program dependent upon both the techniques of chiaroscuro for the emphasis of texture and mass and of silhouetting for the emphasis of profile and spatial layering. In the work of both a commitment to a compound, rather than a singular manner of integrating daylighting contributed to the fragmentation of mass and the merging of the artifact with the landscape.en_US
dc.digitization.specificationsThesis was rescanned at 24-bit color in 2020. PDF has been OCR’d and made accessible.en_US
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dc.identifier.callnoThesis Arch. 1989 Peters, P.en_US
dc.identifier.citationPeters, Patrick A.. "An analysis of daylighting in the works of Alvar Aalto and Louis I. Kahn." (1989) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/13384">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/13384</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.digitalRICE2890en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/13384en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
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dc.subjectArchitectureen_US
dc.titleAn analysis of daylighting in the works of Alvar Aalto and Louis I. Kahnen_US
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thesis.degree.departmentArchitectureen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineArchitectureen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Architectureen_US
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