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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.
— Louis Kahn
A book is tremendously important. Nobody ever paid for the price of a book, they only paid for the printing
— Louis I. Kahn
What does a house want to be?
— Louis Kahn
The street is a room by agreement.
— Louis Kahn
The room is the beginning of architecture.
— Louis Kahn
We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We only know the world as it is evoked by light.
— Louis Kahn
The artist is only a vehicle for already has been. Nothing can really be given a presence unless it already exists potentially.
— Louis I. Kahn
I try to create homes, not houses.
— Louis Kahn
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
— Louis Kahn
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
— Louis Kahn
Even a brick wants to be something
— Louis Kahn
Art is a product of the intuitive - the most powerful instrument within us. The intuitive is the most accurate sense we have.
— Louis I. Kahn
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
— Louis Kahn
A room is not a room without natural light.
— Louis Kahn
The nature of space reflects what it wants to be.
— Louis Kahn
Architecture is what nature cannot make.
Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up. — Louis Kahn
Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up. — Louis Kahn
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
The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall. — Louis Kahn
Just think, that man can claim a slice of the sun.
— Louis Kahn
A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasured.
— Louis I. 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.
— Louis Kahn
Every building must have ... its own soul.
— Louis Kahn