Louis Kahn quotes

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

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

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

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 is the thoughtful making of space.

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.

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.

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.

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