Louis Kahn Quotes & Sayings

17 most famous Louis Kahn quotes and sayings (architect). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

“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.”

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

“You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.' And you say to brick, 'Look, I want one, too, but arches are expensive and I can use a concrete lintel.' And then you say: 'What do you think of that, brick?' Brick says: 'I like an arch.'”

“Every building must have... its own soul.”

“Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.”

“A room is not a room without natural light.”

“I try to create homes, not houses.”

“Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.”

“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.”

“The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.”

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