Louis Kahn Quotes About Architecture

Quotes about: Architecture

• Architecture is the thoughtful making of space

  Louis Kahn

  Thoughtful, Space, Architecture

  Louis I. Kahn (1969). “Louis I. Kahn: Talks with Students”

• Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

  Louis Kahn

  Design, Architecture, Reaching

• A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

  Louis Kahn

  Mean, Architecture, Building

  "Secrets behind the world's great buildings" by Jonathan Glancey, www.cnn.com. October 26, 2016.

• The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.

  Louis Kahn

  Badass, Bad Ass, Doe

• 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 matter of no-light, light, no-light, light. A column and a column brings light between them. To make a column which grows out of the wall and which makes its own rhythm of no-light, light, no-light, light: that is the marvel of the artist.

  Louis Kahn

  Wall, Artist, Light

• The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.

  Louis Kahn

  Sun, Sides, Architecture

  "The Wurmanizer". www.wired.com. February 1, 2000.

• 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.

  Louis Kahn

  Wall, Firsts, Architecture

• Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

  Louis Kahn

  Wall, Events, Architecture

  "Dead man building: is Louis Kahn's posthumous New York project his best?" by Oliver Wainwright, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2014.

• Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

  Louis Kahn

  Art, Past, College

• Architecture is what nature cannot make.
  Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.

  Louis Kahn

  Architecture, Made, Unnatural

• The room is the beginning of architecture.

  Louis Kahn

  Rooms, Architecture

  Louis I. Kahn, Peter S. Reed (1970). “Global architecture”

• Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

  Louis Kahn

  Eye, Architecture, Eyeballs

• If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.

  Louis Kahn

  Art, People, Want

  Louis I. Kahn (1983). “ルイス・カーン: 発想と意味”

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