Louis Kahn
Louis Isadore Kahn (born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky) (February 20, 1901 or 1902 – March 17, 1974) was an American architect,[1] based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. 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. Influenced by ancient ruins, Kahn's style tends to the 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.
“Architecture is what nature cannot make.Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.”
“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.”
“A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasured.”
“The artist is only a vehicle for already has been. Nothing can really be given a presence unless it already exists potentially.”