ABSTRACT
An architectural education can groom students to address a variety of different occupational situations. Louis Kahn's greatest contribution to his students was to reveal a method of thinking that led to constantly questioning the topic under consideration. His teaching was a process of inquiry, a continuous conversation about significant and generalized issues conducted by persistently probing their disposition. Of all the ideas that Kahn professed, the notion of order is the most broadly influential one. Order is realized as a state of harmony, unity and completeness; a qualitative condition necessary to a thing's existence and the essence of its being. The act of designing buildings is a matter of envisioning and ordering, and order is manifested architecturally in the organization of the space, structure, and form of buildings. Kahn proved with the bathhouses at Trenton that a high level of order could be achieved under the most humble and difficult situations.
