Louis Kahn Quotes



Best Quotes by Louis Kahn

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Questions permeate every aspect of our world and our life. Life is all about questions. If you stop asking, you stop living.”

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“Without tracing back to the Tower of Babel, one can observe that the very idea of building a very tall tower has long haunted human imagination.

That kind of victory over the formidable law of gravity that tethers man to the ground has always appeared to him a symbol of the force and the challenges overcome.”


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