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“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.”

Quote by Louis Kahn

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Louis Kahn

Louis Kahn, born on February 20, 1901, and died on March 17, 1974, was one of the most influential architects of the 20th century. Known for his unique modernist style and profound philosophical thinking, Kahn's works have had a profound impact on architecture. 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.”

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

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“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.”

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

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