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Louis Kahn Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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