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
home house trying
I try to create homes, not houses.
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
eye architecture eyeballs
Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.
art people want
If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.
You can never learn anything that is not a part of yourself.
rooms architecture
The room is the beginning of architecture.
small-rooms rooms doe
In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.
creative mind firsts
The person of old had the same brilliance of mind that we assume we have now. But that which made a thing become manifest for the first time is our great moment of creative happening.
wall events architecture
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
running art real
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.
past done demand
I just want to make my last demand in reverence to the work of what has been done by architects of the past. what was, has always been. what is, has always been. and what will be, has always been. such is the nature of beginning.
soul building
Every building must have... its own soul.