American - Architect | February 20, 1901 - March 17, 1974
Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.
Louis Kahn
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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 expensive and I can use a concrete lintel.' And then you say: 'What do you think of that, brick?' Brick says: 'I like an arch.'
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Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
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The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.
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Every building must have... its own soul.
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Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.
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I try to create homes, not houses.
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Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
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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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Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
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The street is a room by agreement.
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In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.
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