Louis Kahn Quotes

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• The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.
• 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,…
• Greek architecture taught me that the column is where the light is not, and the space between is where the light is. It is a…
• The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.
• 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…
• I sense a Threshold: Light to Silence, Silence to Light - an ambiance of inspiration, in which the desire to be, to express, crosses with…
• 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…
• 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…
• All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we, are made of Light which has been spent, and this crumpled…
• The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until…
• How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance.
• Even a brick wants to be something
• 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…
• Every building must have... its own soul.
• Architecture is the thoughtful making of space
• 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…
• We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We only know the world as it is evoked by light.
• Just think, that man can claim a slice of the sun.
• How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library…
• The room is the beginning of architecture.

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