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.

Louis Kahn
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  1. Even a brick wants to be something. A brick wants to be something. It aspires. Even a common, ordinary brick... wants to be something more than it is. It wants to be something better than it is.

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  3. Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

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

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