"I sense light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent light. What is made by light casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to light. I sense a threshold: Light to Silence, Silence to Light - an ambience of inspiration, in which the desire to be, to express crosses with the possible"

- Louis Kahn

 

concrete structure at South entranceHow the concrete meets the travertineWest portico showing the oak floor with water to the rightNorth view showing the water feature and lead roof of the museum

Structure is concrete; with walls of travertine. Floors are of oak; water at north portico and lead roofs that bend and curve to reflect a dull sheen in the southwest sun.

 

This is just as Kahn had envisioned. As the different materials vary in the reflection of the Texas sun, the play of intensities makes the sturcture alive in the light and achieves different moods.