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Louis Kahn Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up Picture Quote #1

If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it’s fine with me. I’m interested in good architecture as anybody else Picture Quote #1

I try to create homes, not houses Picture Quote #1

Every building must have... its own soul Picture Quote #1

You can never learn anything that is not a part of yourself Picture Quote #1

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In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room Picture Quote #1

A room is not a room without natural light Picture Quote #1

The crocodile must want to be a crocodile for reasons of the crocodile Picture Quote #1

Just think, that man can claim a slice of the sun Picture Quote #1

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space Picture Quote #1

Even a brick wants to be something Picture Quote #1

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How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance Picture Quote #1

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball Picture Quote #1

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love Picture Quote #1

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became Picture Quote #1

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth Picture Quote #1

A city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a small boy, as he walks through it, may see something that will tell him what he wants to do his whole life Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

The person of old had the same brilliance of mind that we assume we have now. But that which made a thing become manifest for the first time is our great moment of creative happening Picture Quote #1

We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We only know the world as it is evoked by light Picture Quote #1

Also marvelous in a room is the light that comes through the windows of a room and that belongs to the room. The sun does not realize how beautiful it is until after a room is made. A man’s creation, the making of a room, is nothing short of a miracle. Just think, that a man can claim a slice of the sun Picture Quote #1

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 with static light and forget the endlessly changing qualities of natural light, in which a room is a different room every second of the day Picture Quote #1

The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building Picture Quote #1

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I just want to make my last demand in reverence to the work of what has been done by architects of the past. what was, has always been. what is, has always been. and what will be, has always been. such is the nature of beginning Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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. (Louis Kahn Quotes) Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up. (Louis Kahn Quotes) If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it’s fine with me. I’m interested in good architecture as anybody else (Louis Kahn Quotes) I try to create homes, not houses (Louis Kahn Quotes) Every building must have... its own soul (Louis Kahn Quotes) You can never learn anything that is not a part of yourself (Louis Kahn Quotes) In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room (Louis Kahn Quotes) A room is not a room without natural light (Louis Kahn Quotes) The crocodile must want to be a crocodile for reasons of the crocodile (Louis Kahn Quotes) Just think, that man can claim a slice of the sun (Louis Kahn Quotes) Architecture is the thoughtful making of space (Louis Kahn Quotes) Even a brick wants to be something (Louis Kahn Quotes) How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance (Louis Kahn Quotes) Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball (Louis Kahn Quotes) Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love (Louis Kahn Quotes) Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became (Louis Kahn Quotes) Architecture is the reaching out for the truth (Louis Kahn Quotes) A city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a small boy, as he walks through it, may see something that will tell him what he wants to do his whole life (Louis Kahn Quotes) 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 Quotes) The person of old had the same brilliance of mind that we assume we have now. But that which made a thing become manifest for the first time is our great moment of creative happening (Louis Kahn Quotes) We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We only know the world as it is evoked by light (Louis Kahn Quotes) Also marvelous in a room is the light that comes through the windows of a room and that belongs to the room. The sun does not realize how beautiful it is until after a room is made. A man’s creation, the making of a room, is nothing short of a miracle. Just think, that a man can claim a slice of the sun (Louis Kahn Quotes) 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 with static light and forget the endlessly changing qualities of natural light, in which a room is a different room every second of the day (Louis Kahn Quotes) The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building (Louis Kahn Quotes) I just want to make my last demand in reverence to the work of what has been done by architects of the past. what was, has always been. what is, has always been. and what will be, has always been. such is the nature of beginning (Louis Kahn Quotes) 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 (Louis Kahn Quotes)