The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall. The sunlight did not know what it was before it… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
“A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own,… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
I just want to make my last demand in reverence to the work of what has been done by architects of the… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
“Even a brick wants to be something. A brick wants to be something. It aspires. Even a common, ordinary brick... wants to… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
Greek architecture taught me that the column is where the light is not, and the space between is where the light is.… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. — Louis Kahn Copy Share
Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is. — Louis Kahn Copy Share
I sense a Threshold: Light to Silence, Silence to Light - an ambiance of inspiration, in which the desire to be, to express, crosses… — Louis Kahn Copy Share
If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else. — Louis Kahn Copy Share
We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We only know the world as it is evoked by light. — Louis Kahn Copy Share
Thoughts exchanged by one and another are not the same in one room as in another. — Louis Kahn Copy Share
All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we, are made of Light which has been spent, and this… — Louis Kahn Copy Share
