Best Quotes by Louis Kahn (Top 6)

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
  4. All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we, are made of Light which has been spent, and this crumpled mass called material casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.
  5. Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
  6. Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.