Louis Kahn
Louis Kahn
Louis Isadore Kahnwas an 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth20 February 1901
CountryUnited States of America
men thinking light
Just think, that man can claim a slice of the sun.
influence existence circumstances
How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance.
art past college
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.
space want
The nature of space reflects what it wants to be.
rooms
Thoughts exchanged by one and another are not the same in one room as in another.
book light offering
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
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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...
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A room is not a room without natural light.
architecture made unnatural
Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.
art symphony needs
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.
design architecture reaching
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
art inspiration light
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.
world firsts building
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.
bad-ass rooms sun
The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.