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Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
— Louis Kahn
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Louis Kahn
architect, university teacher, painter, designer, teacher, philosopher
1901 – 1974
Louis Isadore Kahn was an Estonian-born American architect based in Philadelphia. After working in various capacities for several firms in Philadelphia, he founded his own atelier in 1935. While continuing his private practice, he served as a design critic and professor of architecture at Yale School of Architecture from 1947 to 1957. From 1957 until his death, he was a professor of architecture at the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania.
All Quotes by Louis Kahn
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Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.
— Louis Kahn
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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
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Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
— Louis Kahn
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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
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If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.
— Louis Kahn
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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
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Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
— Louis Kahn
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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
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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
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Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.
— Louis Kahn