The Louis I. Kahn Building | Kimbell Art Museum | 50th Anniversary

I remember the first time I heard Louis Kahn’s story about the brick. He said, “You ask the brick, what do you want to be? And the brick says, I like an arch.” At first, I laughed… I mean, a brick talking? But then it hit me. He wasn’t just being poetic. He was trying to tell us something really deep, in the simplest way. He was saying: don’t force things to be what they’re not. Don’t make a brick do something it wasn’t meant to do. Let it be what it wants to be — and if it wants to be part of a

9 homes Louis Kahn designed in and around Philly