- Title
- The Salk: a geometrical analysis supported by historical evidence
- Creator
- Fleming, Steven; Reynolds, Mark
- Relation
- Nexus VII: Architecture and Mathematics p. 185-200
- Relation
- Nexus, relationships between architecture and mathematics 7
- Relation
- http://www.kimwilliamsbooks.com/NexusVII.htm
- Publisher
- Kim Williams Books
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- This paper presents a geometrical analysis of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies by Louis Kahn, 1959-65. With recourse to construction drawings, a digital plan, photographic evidence, and various forms of textural evidence, we emphasize the role played by musical ratios in Kahn's thinking about architecture. The Salk is widely regarded as a coauthored work, the product of a unique collaboration between scientist Jonas Salk and architect Louis Kahn. Not dissimilarly, the paper is coauthored by a geometer and an historian, the former having the role of identifying proportions, the later charged with reconciling prima facie findings with other available evidence: job correspondence, oral histories, known influences, etc. The research is occasioned, naturally, by the Nexus 2008 conference venue and the Salk's commanding presence north of San Diego, but it also highlights a way in which artifacts, texts and narrative can be given equal consideration when historical inquiry and geometrical analysis are coupled in a joint enterprise.
- Subject
- Salk Institute for Biological Studies; geometrical analysis; historical inquiry; Jonas Salk; Louis Kahn
- Identifier
- uon:6438
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/803526
- Identifier
- ISBN:9788888479187
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