Abstract
Kakn left us many sketches and words made in the course of the form-making process. They indicate his "way of thought" into the "beginnings" in Architecture. The fundamental theme in Kahn's thinking is the manifestation of "Form" in Architecture as revealed by the phenomenon of "Existence" in Architecture. This ontological thought is the infinite task (unendliche Aufgabe), which he described by the words "silence and light" in the last stage of his way of thought. The task of this paper is to make a thematic analysis of the inquiry into "existence" in architecture by means of describing the correlation between institutions and inspirations, and by explicating the meaning of the ambulatory in the Unitarian Church. It will be analyzed in three chapters as follows : 1. way of thought ; the meaning of "white light and black shadow" 2. institutions and inspirations 3. the meaning of the ambulatory in the Unitarian Church The radicalism of the retrospective inquiry into "Beginning" is the fundamental attitude in his "way of thought". The words "white light and black shadow" mean that all our institutions are on trial. "Institutions" are one of the leading key words in the last stage of his thought. He defined institutions as "houses of the inspirations", and inspiration as "the feeling of beginning". The ontological meaning of the Form Drawing of Unitarian Church is hereby analyzed by means of describing the primordial meaning of the ambulatory, that is the place "between".
