Greek architecture taught me that the column is where the light is not, and the space between is where the light is. It is a matter of no-light, light, no-light, light. A column and a column brings light between them. To make a column which grows out of the wall and which makes its own rhythm of no-light, light, no-light, light: that is the marvel of the artist.
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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