Famous Quotes

"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 on Architecture

More quotes about Architecture

• "We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."

  Winston Churchill on Architecture

• "Whatever good things we build end up building us."

  Jim Rohn on Architecture

• "I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build."

  Ayn Rand on Architecture

• "A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom."

  Ayn Rand on Architecture

• "Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."

  Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture

More quotes by Louis Kahn

• "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."

• "Architecture is the reaching out for the truth."

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

• "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."

• "Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love."