When one looks at Nature through the glass walls of the Farnsworth House, it takes on a deeper significance than when one stands outside. More of Nature is thus expressed - it becomes part of a greater whole. — 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 light and shadow, as in ordinary buildings. — 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
