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Every building must have... its own soul.

- Louis Kahn
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The street is a room by agreement.

The street is a room by agreement.

I try to create homes, not houses.

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.

You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.' And you say to brick, 'Look, I want one, too, but arches are expensive and I can use a concrete lintel.' And then you say: 'What do you think of that, brick?' Brick says: 'I like an arch.'

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.

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

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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Every building must have... its own soul.

Every building must have... its own soul.

Every building must have... its own soul.

Every building must have... its own soul.

Every building must have... its own soul.

Every building must have... its own soul.

Every building must have... its own soul.

Every building must have... its own soul.

Every building must have... its own soul.

Every building must have... its own soul.

Every building must have... its own soul.

Every building must have... its own soul.

Every building must have... its own soul.

Every building must have... its own soul.

Every building must have... its own soul.