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 Copy Share Image
True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure of us of our material life,… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Form as a goal always ends in formalism. For this striving is directed not towards an inside, but towards an outside. But… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The tendency of our time is wholly oriented toward the secular. The efforts of the mystics will remain episodes. Despite a deepening… — 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
We do not evaluate the result but the starting point of the creative process. Precisely, this shows whether the form was discovered… — 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