Quote by Louis Kahn
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted

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

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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

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architecture
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Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. – Louis Kahn

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Beauty
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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

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architecture
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At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture. – Martin Puryear

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architecture

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. – Federico Garcia Lorca

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architecture

In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture. – Alain Robert

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architecture

I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but thats what I studied in college. Thats what I always wanted to do. – Parker Stevenson

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architecture

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