Quotes by Louis Kahn

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Estonian-American architect · American · 1901–1974

Estonian-American architect (1901–1974)

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“Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.”

“Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.”

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

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

“If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.”

“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.”

Common Themes

“Even a brick wants to be something.A brick wants to be something.It aspires. Even a common, ordinary brick... wants to be something more than it is.It wants to be something better than it is.”

— Louis Kahn

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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.”

— Louis Kahn

Great End Building

“Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.”

— Louis Kahn

Truth Reaching Out

“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.”

— Louis Kahn

Time Art Past

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

— Louis Kahn

Event Wall Consider

“Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.”

— Louis Kahn

Eye Me Between

“If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.”

— Louis Kahn

Good Me People

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