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A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through

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

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In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture. – Arne Jacobsen

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I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business. – James Maslow

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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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