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Read through the most famous quotes from Louis Kahn
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. ↗
Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up. ↗
It includes interviews with such renowned architect contemporaries as Muzharul Islam B. Kahn did not arrive at his distinctive architectural style until he was in his fifties. Kahn's teaching career began at Yale University in 1947.
Influenced by ancient ruins Kahn created a style that was monumental and monolithic; his heavy buildings do not hide their weight their materials or the way they are assembled. Louis Kahn's works are considered as monumental beyond modernism. From 1957 until his death he was a professor of architecture at the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania.
