From: "lauf-s" <lauf-s-AT-quondam.com>
Subject: Koolhaas reenacting Kahn/Tyng?
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 12:00:25 -0400


There is an striking resemblence between the Koolhaas/OMA Seattle Public
Library and Louis Kahn's and Anne Tyng's Muncipal Administrative Building
project from 1956-57, a designed for downtown Philadelphia. See
www.quondam.com/kahntyng001.jpg for an elevation and section of the
Philadelphia design, and any web search of 'koolhaas seattle library' will
provide you with an image of the Seattle design. [The Kahn/Tyng image is a
digital snapshot of a detail of page 31 of LOUIS I. KAHN: COMPLETE WORKS
1935-1974.]

Could it be that Koolhaas has moved on from reenacting late unbuilt Le
Corbusier and American Mies, and is now finding inspiration in early unbuilt
Kahn?

And, not to put too fine on it, but doesn't Kahn's extra marital
relationship with Tyng seem to also be reenacted by Koolhaas as well?

lauf-s
www.quondam.com

Quondam minds want to know what's the next big inspiration, maybe early
unbuilt Venturi & Rauch?!? Oops! I forgot, Koolhaas already reenacted the
National Football Hall of Fame with a design for Karlsruhe.



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