Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

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• Louis Kahn:

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

• Louis Kahn:

  You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.' And you say

• Louis Kahn:

  What does a house want to be?

• Louis Kahn:

  The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of i

• Louis Kahn:

  How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of t

• Louis Kahn:

  Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

• Louis Kahn:

  In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.

• Louis Kahn:

  A room is not a room without natural light.

• Louis Kahn:

  If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody

• Louis Kahn:

  Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.