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" What does a house want to be? "
Louis Kahn
Does
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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. "
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" Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. "
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" How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering. "
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" Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. "
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" I try to create homes, not houses. "
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" If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else. "
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" The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution. "
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" The street is a room by agreement. "
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" In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room. "
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" A room is not a room without natural light. "
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" Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. "
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" Every building must have... its own soul. "
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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. "
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