"The impression becomes inescapable that in Kahn, as once with [Frank Lloyd Wright], architecture began anew.

"With Kahn,...the germinal project was cross-axial in plan. This was the Bath House for the Trenton Community Center...[W]here Wright interwove the axes,...Kahn keeps each of his four spaces uncompromised by giving it a separate roof cap, with oculus, of its own. Kahn's (hipped roofs) do not project in Wright's overhang, keeping instead to their contained volumes,...supported by massive piers. Wright's piers are solid, Kahn's hollow."

— Vincent Scully, Jr. Louis I. Kahn, p25.

The Creator's Words

" 'Today we must build with hollow stones,'...to house the services,...'The nature of space is further characterized by the minor spaces that serve it. Storage rooms, service rooms and cubicles must not be partitioned areas of a single space structure, they must be given their own structure.' "

"Order does not imply beauty."

— Louis I. Kahn, from Vincent Scully, Jr.. Louis I. Kahn, p25, 26