Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. Louis Kahn More Quotes by Louis Kahn More Quotes From Louis Kahn I Use The Square To Begin My Solutions Because The Square Is A Non-choice, Really. In The Course Of Development, I Search For The Forces That Would Disprove The Square. Louis Kahn squares choices use I try to create homes, not houses. Louis Kahn house home trying The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made. Louis Kahn bad-ass badass doe You can never learn anything that is not a part of yourself. Louis Kahn A work of art... is not a living thing... that walks or runs. But the making of a life. That which gives you a reaction. To some it is the wonder of man's fingers. To some it is the wonder of the mind. To some it is the wonder of technique. And to some it is how real it is. To some, how transcendent it is. Like the 5th Symphony, it presents itself with a feeling that you know it, if you have heard it once. Louis Kahn real running art The nature of space reflects what it wants to be. Louis Kahn space want Just think, that man can claim a slice of the sun. Louis Kahn light men thinking 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 college past art Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball. Louis Kahn eyeballs architecture eye Every building must have... its own soul. Louis Kahn building soul 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. Louis Kahn demand done past In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room. Louis Kahn small-rooms doe rooms Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. Louis Kahn wall architecture events Thoughts exchanged by one and another are not the same in one room as in another. Louis Kahn rooms 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 Louis Kahn light offering book The person of old had the same brilliance of mind that we assume we have now. But that which made a thing become manifest for the first time is our great moment of creative happening. Louis Kahn creative mind firsts How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance. Louis Kahn existence influence circumstances The room is the beginning of architecture. Louis Kahn architecture rooms The crocodile must want to be a crocodile for reasons of the crocodile Louis Kahn crocodiles reason want If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else. Louis Kahn want people art
