Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

God is in the details.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

God dwells in the details.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Each material is only what we make it.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“Dios está en los detalles.”

— Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe

[In art], less is more.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The idea of service leads to community.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

But what if we are dealing with fools?

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Generally, I think my work has so much influence because of its reasonableness.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

It is not possible to go forward while looking back.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Create form out of the nature of the task with the means of our time. This is our work.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I think that an industrial process is not like a rubber stamp. Everything has to be put together and, as such, should…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The unformed is not worse than the over-formed. The former is nothing; the latter is mere appearance. Real form presupposes real life.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new building material is the first prerequisite.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself... New materials are not necessarily…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Most of our designs are developed long before there is a practical possibility of carrying them out. I do that on purpose…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

We made drawings the size of a whole quarter of a room ceiling, which we would then send on to the model…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Nature, too, shall live its own life. We must beware not to disrupt it with the color of our houses and interior…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Technology is far more than a method, it is a world in itself. As a method, it is superior in almost every…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

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

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

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

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

It is better to be good than to be original,

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe