Louis Kahn Quotes About Architecture
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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.
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If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.
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The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.
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Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
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Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
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Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.
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Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall. The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.
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Architecture is the thoughtful making of space
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Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.
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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.
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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.
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The room is the beginning of architecture.
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The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.
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