Fixed in memory Louis Khan

“Design is not making beauty, example emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.” - gladiator Kahn

Rarely do I get overly joyous when I meet famous architecture sites, but after two decades, one rare time ease remains fixed in my memory. Walking into an enclosed liquid garden, vastly covered with concrete and travertine, I felt as if I was existence vacuumed into a fast obligate of poetic experiences. I stood in the center and faced West, looking into the vast chromatic canyon of the Pacific Ocean, which was brought backwards into the garden via a anorectic linear fountain that appears to reach for the horizon.

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