Between the Passion and the Absolute: Khan, Mies, and Bushin Dereliction™.
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Louis Kahn and Mies van der Rohe.
What these two architects have left in me is not just a
design aesthetic.
It is a question of structure as a "way of life" and the weight of silence as a "way of being.
Mies - absolutely arranged silence
Mies' architecture is flawless.
Line, structure, proportion, material, light.
No play or emotion is involved, only tranquility reigns.
There is no such thing as "individuality.
The structure itself is beauty, and there is a kind of "law" floating in the air that transcends personality.
I am attracted to its rigor, and at the same time, bound by it.
Don't add anything extra."
"The world is already in order."
Such voices echo from Mies' work.
When I speak of "relax" and "don't try to get it right" in Bushin Dereliction™,
the background is clearly influenced by Miesian absolutism.
But sometimes that stillness is suffocating.
There are blank spaces that, because of their perfection, should not be touched.
Khan - a space struck by the soul
In contrast, Louis Kahn.
I adore him .
Unlike the "subservient worship" I feel for Mies,
I feel close to Khan.
His architecture burns in stillness.
He breathes soul into stone, entrusts questions to light, and
reveals something like an infantile prayer in a seemingly quiet and rigid structure.
A reckless, ephemeral, unattainable ideal.
But there, I sense a future.
**"Hope is to know despair and still light a fire there, "** Kahn seems to be saying in his architecture.
This is also connected to the "warmth" and "forgiveness" of BUSHIN DERIKYOKU™.
Mies and Kahn - contradiction or duality?
Mies and Kahn.
Are the two ideologies contradictory?
I don't think so.
Rather, it is a question that lies at both ends of the world of "order" and "prayer."
- When Mies says, "This is how the world should be,
- Kahn said, "Yet, this is how I want it to be.
Mies' architecture is "a structure that silences the world.
Kahn's architecture is "man speaking out in silence.
And I want to stand in the space between the two.
Not too much praying, not too much preparing.
Not too much prayer, not too much arrangement, not too much meaning, not too much letting go of emotion.
The strength of being as if breathing.
Conclusion: Bushin Dereki™ is a Kahnian attempt to embrace Mies' structure.
The methodology I am creating, "Busshin Dereliction™," is an act of "grasping wholeness" like
Mies and "lighting the fire of life in it" like
Kahn.
It is not either/or, but the very taking on of the contradiction is my structure, my rift, my way of life.
Too much preparation and you die.
Too much passion, and you break.
But only the body that knows both ends of the spectrum knows what it means to
"stand here, now.
