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Salk Institute — Louis Kahn
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Mass carved into orientation.
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Systems of Clarity
Atlas Index:
OBS-ARCH-008
Origin:
La Jolla
Era:
1965
Themes / Lineage:
mass; void; axis
Field Notes:
axis; mass; void
Quiet Modernism appears here as orientation revealed through subtraction.

Mass carved into orientation.

Salk Institute — Louis Kahn

Material is removed to establish direction.

Void clarifies alignment.

Orientation emerges.

How does direction emerge?
Removal is often read as loss, yet carving establishes alignment. Void clarifies position. What continues is orientation formed through subtraction.

Removal is often read as loss, yet carving establishes alignment.

Void clarifies position.

What continues is orientation formed through subtraction.

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