ABSTRACT
Louis I. Kahn was the architect of light. He was possessed by the power of light, and even in his early sketches that he brought back from Europe as a young man he portrayed buildings and scenes in ways that captured the spirit of the sun's energy and form-giving essence. Light was creation and man lived in the light and light allowed man to exist to create. He believed that even a closet in a building needed a sliver of light to be a space. He sought a way to illuminate art with natural light without the devastating harmful rays of ultra violet and infrared light on artwork. Lou, while alive and in studio, came close to Mary's revelation in the way he talked about light and the silence. There was silence and into the silence came the light. The light was in silence but the light was noise.
