Louis Kahn

Louis Kahn

Louis Isadore Kahn (born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky) ( – March 17, 1974) was an American architect, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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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.

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Louis Kahn

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

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Louis Kahn

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

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Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

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Louis Kahn

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

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Louis Kahn