Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, no...

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last for...

Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.

The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to...

What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something...

Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we ...

Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of fun...

God is in the details.

Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.

We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.

The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reach...

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous...

Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.

It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vita...

Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple trut...

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfoldi...

Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us ...

I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is n...

Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good polit...

True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us o...