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Louis Kahn quotes: If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.

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

Louis Kahn quotes: What does a house want to be?

What does a house want to be?

Louis Kahn quotes: The street is a room by agreement.

The street is a room by agreement.

Louis Kahn quotes: The room is the beginning of architecture.

The room is the beginning of architecture.

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.

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: Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

Louis Kahn quotes: I try to create homes, not houses.

I try to create homes, not houses.

Louis Kahn quotes: Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

Louis Kahn quotes: A room is not a room without natural light.

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

The crocodile must want to be a crocodile for reasons of the crocodile

Louis Kahn quotes: Even a brick wants to be something

Even a brick wants to be something

Louis Kahn quotes: Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is.

Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is.

Louis Kahn quotes: You can never learn anything that is not a part of yourself.

You can never learn anything that is not a part of yourself.

Louis Kahn quotes: Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Louis Kahn quotes: How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance.

How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance.

Louis Kahn quotes: Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

Louis Kahn quotes: Thoughts exchanged by one and another are not the same in one room as in another.

Thoughts exchanged by one and another are not the same in one room as in another.

Louis Kahn quotes: The nature of space reflects what it wants to be.

The nature of space reflects what it wants to be.

Louis Kahn quotes: Architecture is what nature cannot make.Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.

Architecture is what nature cannot make.
Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.

Louis Kahn quotes: 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.

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.

Louis Kahn quotes: Just think, that man can claim a slice of the sun.

Just think, that man can claim a slice of the sun.

Louis Kahn quotes: The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.

The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.

Louis Kahn quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Every building must have ... its own soul.

Every building must have ... its own soul.

Louis Kahn quotes: In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.

In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.