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
eye architecture eyeballs
Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.
rooms architecture
The room is the beginning of architecture.
wall events architecture
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
architecture made unnatural
Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.
design architecture reaching
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
thoughtful space architecture
Architecture is the thoughtful making of space
sides sun architecture
The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.
mean architecture building
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.
wall firsts architecture
Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall. The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.
arch brick concrete consult design express nature says
To express is to drive.And when you want to give something presence, you have to consult nature.And there is where Design comes in.And if you think of Brick, for instance,and you say to Brick,""What do you want Brick?""And Brick says to you""I like an Arch.""And if you say to Brick""Look, arches are expensive, and I can use a concrete lentil over you. What do you think of that?""""Brick?""Brick says:""... I like an Arch
art cannot feeling gives heard itself living man nature presents symphony tells though walks wonder work
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.And you look for it,and though you know it you must hear it again.Though you know it you must see it again.Truly a work of Art is one that tells us, that Nature cannot make what man can make.
want reason crocodiles
The crocodile must want to be a crocodile for reasons of the crocodile
home house trying
I try to create homes, not houses.
art people want
If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.