Abstract
The language of Louis I. Kahn records the way of thought whereby he continuously looked for the "Beginnings of Architecture". The last stage of his thought can be epitomized by the thought of "Silence and Light". In this paper I explicate the ontological meaning of Light in this thought of "Silence and Light" by means of describing the way of thought in which the transcendent questions are implicated as the Odyssey of a life. I sketch preliminarily the primordial meaning of Beginning in which this thought of "Silence and Light" teleologically arrives. This task of a thematic analysis of correlation between Silence and Light is described in four chapters as follows : 1. meaning of Silence 2. meaning of Light 3. correlation between Silence and Light 4. the existential meaning of the threshold. The correlation of Silence and Light is described in three ways of thought as follow : a. the way of transcendence (light-silence-spent light) b. the way of reduction (material-shadow-light) c. crossing of two "movings" (Silence to Light, Light to Silence). The meaning of crossing of two "movings" is interpreted as the way of transcendence or the way of reduction. But, why must Kahn think of two "movings"? ie, the longest trace from Silence, the longest path toward Silence. Two "movings" can be explicated by means phenomenology of perception, the map of the visible and the map of the"I can". The enigma is that my body is simultaneously seer and is seen. The existential meaning of threshold, which is the meeting place of two "movings", is explicated in terms of intentional analysis in the meaning of Art and Shadow.
