Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.
You can never learn anything that is not a part of yourself. - Louis Kahn
You can never learn anything that is not a part of yourself.
- Louis Kahn
You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.' And you say to brick, 'Look, I want one, too, but arches are … - Louis Kahn
You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.' And you say to brick, 'Look, I want one, too, but arches are …
A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable. - Louis Kahn
A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is. - Louis Kahn
Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is.
Architecture is the thoughtful making of space - Louis Kahn
Architecture is the thoughtful making of space
Architects in planning rooms today have forgotten their faith in natural light. Depending on the touch of a finger to a switch, they are satisfied w… - Louis Kahn
Architects in planning rooms today have forgotten their faith in natural light. Depending on the touch of a finger to a switch, they are satisfied w…
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. - Louis Kahn
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
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. - Louis Kahn
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.
We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We only know the world as it is evoked by light. - Louis Kahn
We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We only know the world as it is evoked by light.
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