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Conrad 2022-09-02 23:41:32

On the one hand, it is a smooth way of doing things, and on the other hand, it emphasizes Quality, not quantity, and points out that three or four representative works are more worthy of pride than fifty or sixty buildings. A smiling IM Pei can be everybody's peach. On the other hand, Louis Kahn, a man from Estonia, whose surname was Shmalowsky, may have died in a Tolstoy-like manner out of the stubbornness and madness unique to his Eastern European blood. end of life. Lous' wife said in an interview, I used to say to Lou, "you know, Lou, if you would put some of your energy into making money, you'd be a billionaire." Money was something that was there. He kept saying, and unfortunately, my daughter, who's also an artist, says the same thing. "But mother, it's only money." And he owned nothing. He didn't believe in owning anything. Books and neckties. Other than that, nothing. ” The last Bangladeshi building cried. He gave us democracy. He is not a political man. But in disguise, he has given us the institution for democracy from where we can rise. And that weight is so relevant.

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  • Louis Kahn: How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance.

  • Louis Kahn: A work of art... is not a living thing... that walks or runs. But the making of a life. That which gives you a reaction. To some it is the wonder of man's fingers. To some it is the wonder of the mind. To some it is the wonder of technique. And to some it is how real it is. To some, how transcendent it is. Like the 5th Symphony, it presents itself with a feeling that you know it, if you have heard it once. And you look for it, and though you know it you must hear it again. Though you know it you must see it again. Truly, a work of art is one that tells us that Nature cannot make what man can make.

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