Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This is no less true of steel and concrete. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Technology is far more than a method, it is a world in itself. As a method, it is superior in almost every respect. But only where it is left to itself, as in gigantic structures of engineering, there technology reveals… — 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
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