Brick Pencil

Please allow 10 working days to process before shipping Pigment Dyed - Rose Quartz Short SleeveMade in USA - 100% USA Cotton Louis Kahn Louis Kahn used to tell his students: if you are ever stuck for inspiration, ask your materials for advice. "You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.' And you say to brick, 'Look, I want one, too, but arches are expensive and I can use a concrete lintel.' And then you say: 'What do you think of that, brick?' Brick says: 'I like an arch.'” Khan stressed you had to respect brick's inherent nature and order. He stressed not to just use brick as a secondary material, or because it was cheaper, but put brick into absolute glory. That is the only position that it deserves.   Believing his materials had a stubborn sense of their own destiny was one of the many quirks of this oddball architect, who died of a heart attack in a toilet at New York's Penn Station in 1974. Inspired by ruins, DNA and primary geomet