Global architecture
A source page for quotes linked to Louis Kahn.
Related Quotes
“You can never learn anything that is not a part of yourself.”
“Thoughts exchanged by one and another are not the same in one room as in another.”
“Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is.”
“The nature of space reflects what it wants to be.”
Source: The Art Museums of Louis I. Kahn
“Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.”
“Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.”
“The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.”
“The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.”
Source: The Art Museums of Louis I. Kahn
Source: Louis I. Kahn: l'uomo, il maestro
“How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance.”
“Architecture is the thoughtful making of space”
Source: Louis I. Kahn: Talks with Students
“The room is the beginning of architecture.”
Source: Global architecture
“The crocodile must want to be a crocodile for reasons of the crocodile”
“A room is not a room without natural light.”
Source: Global architecture
Source: ルイス・カーン: 発想と意味
“In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.”