"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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Source : "Secrets behind the world's great buildings" by Jonathan Glancey, www.cnn.com. October 26, 2016.

Louis Kahn

#Mean Quotes #Architecture Quotes #Building Quotes

“The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.”
“Coaching and teaching are two different things. The coaching never turned me on that much, but I always enjoyed the teaching, the practice sessions.”
“Awe is the best drug in the world”
“When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it's very exciting”
“The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.”
“Today is a good day for war to end.”
“I knew that what I did visually could not be completely understood. I knew that certain aspects of the work need a long time to develop. You get the visual idea in two seconds, but this idea can be developed like like a theory. You can see later on if the theory was correct, followed, or completely abandoned. That's why the writing can advance what is done. This is more or less how I started to write: to be sure that people will not totally misunderstand what my goal was.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“You say youâ€™re sure? Sure that youâ€™re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?”

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