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. - Louis Kahn
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. - Louis Kahn
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. - Louis Kahn
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. - 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. - Louis Kahn
Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up. - Louis Kahn
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. - Louis Kahn
Questions permeate every aspect of our world and our life. Life is all about questions. If you stop asking, you stop living. - Louis Kahn