Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

— 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

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

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Less is more.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, and just as we must understand functions, we must become familiar with the psychological and…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion…

— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

— 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

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

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

[In art], less is more.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

You can use up all the slums for new development. In all the cities of the world, there are large areas of…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

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

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

What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something imponderable, something that lies between things.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This is no less true of…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Cheese was the staple. Bread you brought from home. The Schnaps came later. At the end of the week when people got…

— 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

The architect must get to know the people who will live in the planned house. From their needs, the rest inevitably follows.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I especially remember that on All Souls Day, when so many people wanted new monuments for the graves, our whole family pitched…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe