The Creator's Words
"What a column is in steel or concrete is not yet felt as a part of us.
It must be different from stone.
Stone we know and feel its beauty.
Material we now use in architecture we know only for its superior strength but not for its meaningful form. Concrete and steel must become greater than the engineer.
The expected wonders in concrete and steel confront us. We know from the spirit of architecture that their characteristics must be in harmony with the spaces that want to be and evoke what spaces can be.
Concept
The Fisher House is the simplest expression of Kahn’s idea: two cubes, one dedicated to the living room (served space) and a second one containing the other the bedrooms (serving space). These two cubes merge on an angle apparently by chance, like dice thrown on a table. In fact, they are not perfect cubes and the "cube" containing the living room is not even square in plan, but they are both close enough to be perceived as such.