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Louis Kahn [1901-1974] American

Rank: 101
Architect

Louis Isadore Kahn was an American architect, based in Philadelphia. After working in various capacities for several firms in Philadelphia, he founded his own atelier in 1935.

Architecture, Art, Beauty, Design, Great, Love, Space, Time, Truth

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The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.		101
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.	Architecture, Art, Time	102
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.	Architecture, Truth	103
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.	Beauty, Design, Love	104
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.	Architecture, Great	105
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.	Architecture	106
You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.' And you say to brick, 'Look, I want one, too, but arches are expensive and I can use a concrete lintel.' And then you say: 'What do you think of that, brick?' Brick says: 'I like an arch.'		107
I try to create homes, not houses.		108
If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.	Architecture	109
In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.		110
Every building must have... its own soul.		111
The street is a room by agreement.		112
What does a house want to be?		113
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 tells you of this offering.		114
Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.	Architecture, Space	115
A room is not a room without natural light.		116
Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.	Architecture	117

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