Kahn’s Window Authors Petr Kapustin Voronezh State Technical University image/svg+xml Downloads PDF (Russian) DOI: https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.59.1450 Published 2019-03-14 Issue No. 59 (2019): curtain XX Section Articles How to Cite Kahn’s Window. (2019). Project Baikal, 16(59), 142-145. https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.59.1450 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Keywords: Louis Kahn; window; intentionality in architecture; design ethics; metaphor; text in architecture Abstract This essay considers L. Kahn’s famous expression, his question addressed to his colleagues: “What does the window want to be?”. Kahn has a special status in architecture of the XXth century: he can be considered one of the most outstanding spokesmen for the century’s architectural self-consciousness, with all its striking visualization, toughness and inflexibility, as well as its hidden cunning, tendency towards manipulation and suggestion. The latter qualities are analyzed in the essay.