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Architecture

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

- Louis Kahn

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End Being

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

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

- Louis Kahn

Architecture Past Mind Time Soul

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

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

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

- Louis Kahn

Architecture

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

- Louis Kahn

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