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Louis Isadore Kahn (born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky) (March 5 [O.S. February 20] 1901 – March 17, 1974) was an American architect, based in Philadelphia. After working in various capacities for several firms in Philadelphia, he founded his own atelier in 1935. While continuing his private practice, he served as a design critic and professor of architecture at Yale School of Architecture from 1947 to 1957. From 1957 until his death, he was a professor of architecture at the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Also marvelous in a room is the light that comes through the windows of a room and that belongs to the room. The sun does not realize how beautiful it is until after a room is made. A man’s creation, the making of a room, is nothing short of a miracle. Just think, that a man can claim a slice of the sun.

Beautiful, Mans, Men, Nothing, Slice, Thinking

Every building must have. . . its own soul.

Building, Soul

A room is not a room without natural light.

Light, Natural, Natural Light, Room, Rooms

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

Architecture, Eye, Eyeball, Eyeballs, Struck

The room is the beginning of architecture.

Architecture, Beginning, Room, Rooms

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Art, Symphony, Needs, Fulfillment, Live, Creation

I sense a Threshold: Light to Silence, Silence to Light - an ambiance of inspiration, in which the desire to be, to express, crosses with the possible Light to Silence, Silence to Light crosses in the sanctuary of art.

Art, Inspiration, Light, Possible, Silence

If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.

Art, People, Want, Architecture, Good

In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.

Doe, Room, Rooms, Say, Small, Small Rooms

You can never learn anything that is not a part of yourself.

Part, Learn

Thoughts exchanged by one and another are not the same in one room as in another.

Exchanged, Room, Rooms, Same, Thoughts

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

Death, Emerges, Inspirational, Integration, Love, Motivational

I Use The Square To Begin My Solutions Because The Square Is A Non-choice, Really. In The Course Of Development, I Search For The Forces That Would Disprove The Square.

Begin, Choices, Course, Solutions, Squares, Use

How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance.

Accidental, Circumstance, Circumstances, Existence, Influence

Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is.

Crack, Cracks, Dark, Know, Light, Needs

The crocodile must want to be a crocodile for reasons of the crocodile

Crocodile, Crocodiles, Reason, Reasons, Want

Architects in planning rooms today have forgotten their faith in natural light. Depending on the touch of a finger to a switch, they are satisfied with static light and forget the endlessly changing qualities of natural light, in which a room is a different room every second of the day.

Light, Quality, Different, Static, Forget

I try to create homes, not houses.

Create, Home, Homes, House, Houses, Trying

The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.

Bad Ass, Badass, Doe, Room, Sun, Wonderful

Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.

Architecture, Made, Make, Nature, Unnatural

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