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Architecture Quote by Louis Kahn

“Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits…” quote by Louis Kahn — Download Open image

“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.”

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

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Even a brick wants to be something

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

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A room is not a room without natural light.

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Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

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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.

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The street is a room by agreement.

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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 room is the beginning of architecture.

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The nature of space reflects what it wants to be.

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