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Quote by Walter Gropius

“Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.”

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Walter Gropius, a German architect and a pioneer of modern architecture, was born on May 18, 1883, and died on July 5, 1969. He founded the Bauhaus, which had a profound impact on architectural education. more

“Greek architecture taught me that the column is where the light is not, and the space between is where the light is. It is a matter of no-light, light, no-light, light. A column and a column brings light between them. To make a column which grows out of the wall and which makes its own rhythm of no-light, light, no-light, light: that is the marvel of the artist.”

Matter Light Artist Grows Space Taught Wall Architecture Rhythm Greek Columns Space Between

Author:Louis Kahn

“Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.”

Made Architecture Unnatural

Author:Louis Kahn

“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.”

Knows Firsts Wall First Time Architecture Sunlight

Author:Louis Kahn

“The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.”

Sides Sun Building Architecture

Author:Louis Kahn

“I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent Light. What is made by Light casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.”

Made Light Materials Shadow Casts Giver

Book:The Art Museums of Louis I. Kahn

Source: The Art Museums of Louis I. Kahn

“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.”

Art Light Inspiration Desire Silence Crosses Sanctuary Threshold Ambiance

Author:Louis Kahn

“Architects in planning rooms today have forgotten their faith in natural light. Depending on the touch of a finger to a switch, they are satisfied with static light and forget the endlessly changing qualities of natural light, in which a room is a different room every second of the day.”

Different Light Today Natural Forget Rooms Quality Fingers Forgotten Planning Satisfied Architect Static Every Second Natural Light

Author:Louis Kahn

“Also marvelous in a room is the light that comes through the windows of a room and that belongs to the room. The sun does not realize how beautiful it is until after a room is made. A man’s creation, the making of a room, is nothing short of a miracle. Just think, that a man can claim a slice of the sun.”

Thinking Men Doe Made Light Beautiful Realizing Rooms Sun Creation Window Miracle Claims Marvelous

Author:Louis Kahn

“I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.”

Catholic Baptized Roman Catholic

Author:Billy Corgan

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