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 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
We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I see in industrialization the central problem of building in our time. If we succeed in carrying out this industrialization, the social,… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead them into… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood — 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
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 Image
Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together. — 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 walls that… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Generally, I think my work has so much influence because of its reasonableness. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image