"Architects in planning rooms today have forgotten their……" — Louis Kahn
"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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Louis Kahn
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36 Quotes by Louis Kahn
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The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.
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I just want to make my last demand in reverence to the work of what has been done by architects…
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Greek architecture taught me that the column is where the light is not, and the space between is where the…
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The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.
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I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent Light. What is made by Light casts a…
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I sense a Threshold: Light to Silence, Silence to Light - an ambiance of inspiration, in which the desire to…
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Also marvelous in a room is the light that comes through the windows of a room and that belongs to…
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All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we, are made of Light which has…
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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never…
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How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance.
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Even a brick wants to be something
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A city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a small boy, as he walks through it,…
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