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A TripAdvisor™ TripWow video of a travel blog to Ahmedabad, India by TravelPod blogger Bird_dream. See this TripWow and more at tripwow.tripadvisor.com Mr Louis Kahn: Indian Institute of Management "I'm a big fan of Louis Kahn. As a student, Kahn's writing was rarely surpassed. It had an elegance and a profundity which was distinct from the scriptures of Libeskind, the complications of Hadid and the ******** of Koolhass. Evidently, his illustrious buildings lived up to compact and engaging messages: "light is form"; "the lines are the ornament"; "There is building, and then there is sky". But pursuing these maxims within a student design proposal was as it turned out, a little more difficult. Walking around IIM was little bit the same: Difficult. We can all comprehend Louis's language - words and buildings- but few can actually walk with him. The amazing thing about IIM is its utter conviction (see also Tom Cruise re. Scientology). Maybe it was from living under John Winston Howard for 10 years, but nowadays I am pretty uneasy with this kind of pathological conviction. In Ahmedabad, I have enjoyed Le Corbusier's buildings - sans the City Museum - because of their transitions from austere and brutal exteriors to playful and organic internal spaces. You are given the sense that Corb is 'letting it go' at places, letting other forces take over. No such submission is made by Kahn, he tells you exactly how you are having your meal: "Perhaps you would like a pinch of austerity ...

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