Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
The architect must get to know the people who will live in the planned house. From their needs, the rest inevitably follows. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A construction of girders that carry the weight, and… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. he will not understand… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to its times and manifests itself… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion… — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Copy Share Image
The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. He will not understand… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of significance but the circumstance… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share
Nature, too, shall live its own life. We must beware not to disrupt it with the color of our houses and interior fittings. yet… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share
Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share
Just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, and just as we must understand functions, we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share
Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share
The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing.… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share
The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our… — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Copy Share
Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share
Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A construction of girders that carry the weight, and walls that… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share
Generally, I think my work has so much influence because of its reasonableness. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share
You can use up all the slums for new development. In all the cities of the world, there are large areas of these. Also,… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share
The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share
The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share
You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them a sense… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share
