The Arch
«When one speaks with a brick and asks, what it wishes to be, it will answer: an arch. And when one replies, ‹Look, arches are expensive and a concrete lintel is simpler,› then the brick will answer, ‹I know it's more expensive and it probably can't be built nowadays, but if you ask, what I really wish to be, than my answer remains, an arch.› »
Louis I. Kahn, 1972
(from: «Die Architektur und die Stille» Basel, 1993)
