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Architecture Quotes by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors…
- Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of the old. Where else can we find such unity of material, construction…
- Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.
- Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead them into the healthy world…
- Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.
- But what if we are dealing with fools?
- If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgement. It…
- Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet
- Less is more.
- Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
- Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
- True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure of us of our material life, our values make…
- The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time.…
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