Louis Kahn
Louis Kahn
Louis Isadore Kahnwas an American architect, based in Philadelphia. After working in various capacities for several firms in Philadelphia, he founded his own atelier in 1935. While continuing his private practice, he served as a design critic and professor of architecture at Yale School of Architecture from 1947 to 1957...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth20 February 1901
CountryUnited States of America
inspirational motivational death
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
light shadow made
I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent Light. What is made by Light casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.
thinking use arches
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.'
wall firsts architecture
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.
mean architecture building
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.
art past college
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.
past done demand
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.
art people want
If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.
men thinking light
Just think, that man can claim a slice of the sun.
You can never learn anything that is not a part of yourself.
running art real
A Work of Art... is not a living thing ...that walks or runs.But the making of a life.That which gives you a reaction.To some it is the wonder of Man's Fingers.To some it is the wonder of the Mind.To some it is the wonder of Technique.And to some it is how Real it is.To some, how Transcendent it is.Like the 5th Symphony it presents itself.
art symphony needs
The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.
art inspiration light
I sense a Threshold: Light to Silence, Silence to Light - an ambiance of inspiration, in which the desire to be, to express, crosses with the possible Light to Silence, Silence to Light crosses in the sanctuary of art.
book light offering
How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering