Abstract
The fundamental words in Kahn's "way of thought" continuously modified whereby he looked for the "beginnings" of architecture. The leading key word in the middle stage of his way of thought is "form", that is the perfect correlate of "realization." He said "realization is the realization in form". The task of this paper is to make a thematic analysis of the meaning of form by means of describing the correlation between form and realization. It will be analyzed in four chapters as follows: 1. Realization and criticism on modernism 2. Definitions on form 3. Form and nature 4. Realization of inseparable elements In CIAM '59 Otterlo Congress Kahn talked on realization, and criticized "modernism" as follows "there are many in our profession who rely entirely upon the actual design and very little on the way of thought as to what a thing wants to be, before they try to develop the design-the solution of the problem". Form is meant by "what a thing wants to be", and realization by "way of thought". Form is described in four aspects as follows '. 1. The simple definition, ie form is nature 2. The transcendental meaning 3. The eidetic meaning, ie inseparable elements 4. The differetiation between form and design. The eidetic meaning of form is a particularly the key aspect in the explication of his works. He said "in architecture, form characterizes a harmony of spaces good for a certain activity of man". This "a harmony of spaces" is the meaning of inseparable elements; which is analyzed in the fact of "a sense of order".
