Territorial scale in the architecture of L.I. Kahn

The research rectifies the almost mythical concept that an architect produces and imbues the landscape with a vision coming uniquely from his or her own volition. The study shows, through several examples of remarkable institutions, that with patient study and careful understanding the architect can appropriate into the project a multitude of exterior aspects. In reorienting these aspects into the path of the architectural composition, the architect gives them qualitative added value. Thus, by accounting for the territorial contingencies and their qualities, a slow process of composition transforms an ideal design of space into an indivisible relationship between a luminous architecture and its surroundings.