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
dark light cracks
Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is.
boys cities availability
A city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a small boy, as he walks through it, may see something that will tell him what he wants to do his whole life.
want bricks
Even a brick wants to be something
wall artist space
Greek architecture taught me that the column is where the light is not, and the space between is where the light is. It is a matter of no-light, light, no-light, light. A column and a column brings light between them. To make a column which grows out of the wall and which makes its own rhythm of no-light, light, no-light, light: that is the marvel of the artist.
design architecture reaching
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
world firsts building
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.
thoughtful space architecture
Architecture is the thoughtful making of space
squares choices use
I Use The Square To Begin My Solutions Because The Square Is A Non-choice, Really. In The Course Of Development, I Search For The Forces That Would Disprove The Square...
architecture made unnatural
Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.
space want
The nature of space reflects what it wants to be.
small-rooms rooms doe
In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.
soul building
Every building must have... its own soul.
creative mind firsts
The person of old had the same brilliance of mind that we assume we have now. But that which made a thing become manifest for the first time is our great moment of creative happening.
wall events architecture
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.