Kahn’s Irony Online Discussion of 15-16 October, 2018 Authors Petr Kapustin Voronezh State Technical University image/svg+xml Mikhail Yastrebov Nikolai Vasiliev ICOMOS; DOCOMOMO Alexander Rappaport Union of Moscow Architects; Union of Designers of Russia Mikhail Belov MArchI Downloads PDF (Russian) DOI: https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.59.1452 Published 2019-03-14 Issue No. 59 (2019): curtain XX Section Editorial material How to Cite Kahn’s Irony: Online Discussion of 15-16 October, 2018. (2019). Project Baikal, 16(59), 150-153. https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.59.1452 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Keywords: architecture; Louis Kahn; irony; modern paradigm; avant-garde; style; game; postmodern Abstract Architects, historians and architecture critics dispute about the possibility to apply the notion “irony” to architecture, basing on Louis Kahn’s creative activity. The stylistic peculiarities of his works demonstrate his attempt to clear up the paradoxicality of existence typical of the era of late modernism.