Louis Kahn Quotes about Architecture

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

Sun, Sides, Architecture

"The Wurmanizer". www.wired.com. February 1, 2000.

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.

Wall, Firsts, Architecture

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.

Mean, Architecture, Building

"Secrets behind the world's great buildings" by Jonathan Glancey, www.cnn.com. October 26, 2016.

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space

Thoughtful, Space, Architecture

Louis I. Kahn (1969). “Louis I. Kahn: Talks with Students”

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

Architecture, Made, Unnatural

The room is the beginning of architecture.

Rooms, Architecture

Louis I. Kahn, Peter S. Reed (1970). “Global architecture”

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Design, Architecture, Reaching

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

Eye, Architecture, Eyeballs

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

Wall, Events, Architecture

"Dead man building: is Louis Kahn's posthumous New York project his best?" by Oliver Wainwright, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2014.