Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. Louis Kahn More Quotes by Louis Kahn More Quotes From Louis Kahn I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent Light. What is made by Light casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light. Louis Kahn shadow light made Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall. Louis Kahn wall architecture firsts Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is. Louis Kahn cracks light dark We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We only know the world as it is evoked by light. Louis Kahn born light world 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.' Louis Kahn use looks thinking The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building. Louis Kahn architecture sides sun 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. Louis Kahn quality different light 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 building architecture mean 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 light artist All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we, are made of Light which has been spent, and this crumpled mass called material casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light. Louis Kahn shadow light air A city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a small boy, as he walks through it, may see something that will tell him what he wants to do his whole life. Louis Kahn availability cities boys The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it. Louis Kahn symphony art needs Also marvelous in a room is the light that comes through the windows of a room and that belongs to the room. The sun does not realize how beautiful it is until after a room is made. A man’s creation, the making of a room, is nothing short of a miracle. Just think, that a man can claim a slice of the sun. Louis Kahn beautiful men thinking Even a brick wants to be something Louis Kahn bricks want Architecture is the thoughtful making of space Louis Kahn thoughtful architecture space I sense a Threshold: Light to Silence, Silence to Light - an ambiance of inspiration, in which the desire to be, to express, crosses with the possible Light to Silence, Silence to Light crosses in the sanctuary of art. Louis Kahn light inspiration art Architecture is what nature cannot make. Louis Kahn unnatural architecture made A room is not a room without natural light. Louis Kahn natural-light light rooms 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. Louis Kahn building world firsts 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
