Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

God is in the details.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

God dwells in the details.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Each material is only what we make it.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

But what if we are dealing with fools?

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The idea of service leads to community.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

[In art], less is more.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“Dios está en los detalles.”

— Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

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

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children.

— 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

Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

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

I do not think it is an advantage to build planned packaged houses. If you prefabricate a house completely, it becomes an…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

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

It is much better to have just one idea, and if the idea is clear, then you can fight for it. That…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

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

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

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

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

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

Technology is far more than a method, it is a world in itself. As a method, it is superior in almost every…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of the old. Where else can we find such unity…

— 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

Create form out of the nature of the task with the means of our time. This is our work.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

It is not possible to go forward while looking back.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe