"I just want to make my last demand……" — Louis Kahn
"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, has always been. what is, has always been. and what will be, has always been. such is the nature of beginning."
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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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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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Architects in planning rooms today have forgotten their faith in natural light. Depending on the touch of a finger to a…
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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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