In post-modernism, architecture always carries out hidden messages and philosophies through structure. With the ideas of modernism applied, adding more connection to surrounding space and people became what post-modernist concerned. Instead of having machine speaks out itself like modernism, post-modern focuses on how people and nature are interacting with space. The way people move creates an architecture as well as nature being part of architecture and ornament itself. Mentioned before in previous blog, Frank Lloyd Wright designed the house incorporating between nature and machine; Louis Kahn is another architect who played the same rule, with natural light included in this case.
In Salk Institute in Ohio, Kahn tried to create a completely new language in architecture. No more glass and steel and used but only nature and light. In this project, he created a strong connection between ocean, courtyard, and natural light to the space. At the main entrance, laboratory rooms were all facing the main waterway and placed along both sides creating more concentration on the building's highlight. Successfully, they played important factors making building a building. Not only the main water way where elements link, the whole structure is merging beautifully from architecture planning, exterior , and interior.
Similar interests in light, voids, and pure geometry, Kahn carried out the idea from the Institute to the library of Exeter. Emphasizing a pure x shape on the roof lit up by the light, the structure has a hugh void in the main atrium allowing every floor to view the main hall through different voids with each room wrapping around it. Looking like a normal and simple building from the outside, however, the interior consists of many voids and light illuminating the space to serve its function as a library.
Compare to modernism, post-modern period is much more playful with many elements included whether in terms of tangible or intangible factors.
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