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**muttlieb** · May 2, 2011, 07:34 PM

This is the closest I could come up with...

"Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love."

Louis Kahn

**Gordon Price** · May 2, 2011, 07:52 PM

Or...
"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."
R. Buckminster Fuller

Both good, and maybe I am just misremembering. Or combining another quote with the Fuller quote. Ah well. I guess I just have to use one of those or come up with my own for the little thing I am writing.

Thanks!
Gordon

**dzatto** · May 2, 2011, 08:08 PM

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Gordon Price[/B];15248]Or...
"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."
R. Buckminster Fuller

Both good, and maybe I am just misremembering. Or combining another quote with the Fuller quote. Ah well. I guess I just have to use one of those or come up with my own for the little thing I am writing.

Thanks!
Gordon

Dude, YOU said it! :laugh:

**Gordon Price** · May 2, 2011, 08:21 PM

Very nearly certain I never came up with something that good. And for sure someone remembers who did right after I claim it as my own!

Naw, if nothing else I use the quote and claim unknown provenance.

Gordon

**JCM** · May 2, 2011, 08:30 PM

Or you can just say JCM said that in a very brief and unique moment of Inspiration

**Gordon Price** · May 2, 2011, 08:41 PM

It is a good quote, isn't it? Something about "right making" just sounds profound. And I kinda like the idea that architecture can be profound. Obviously the sentiment that beauty isn't the goal, but is a required result, is important. Kahn got it, and Fuller. And Apple. I wish the sentiment was more prevalent.

Gordon

EDIT: Dang, now a Google search on "right making" puts this thread at the top of the list! Having an Anubis Gates moment?

**Alfredo Medina** · May 2, 2011, 11:15 PM

Gordon, I remember reading something similar to the quote you remember, in a book called "Oral History of Modern Architecture", in the chapter dedicated to the interviews with Mies Van der Rohe. In that interview, Mies cites Saint Augustine, as the author of a quote that says that Beauty comes from Truth. Unfortunately, I don´t have the book with me now, so I cannot cite the exact words nor can I remember them very well, but this might give you another clue about the author.

**Gordon Price** · May 2, 2011, 11:23 PM

Thanks Alf! I can see Mies saying something along those lines too. I did find the St Augustine quotes, and I can see them inspiring the quote I am looking for. I may need to see if the Portland Library has the book you mention. Or I may need to email an Arch History prof. Just gonna save time.

Gordon

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