Louis Kahn Quotes and Sayings
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“Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.”
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“The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.”
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“Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.”
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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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“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.”
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“Architecture is the thoughtful making of space”
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“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.”
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“We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We only know the world as it is evoked by light.”
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“The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.”
-- Louis Kahn