Quote by Louis Kahn
Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece

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

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Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic. – Antonio Gaudi

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The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living. – Stephen Gardiner

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Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things. – Rem Koolhaas

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