Concrete Quote by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

We're stuck in the concrete age. Concrete has really become this ever-present material that's almost impossible to get away from. It's cheap, abundant, and…

— Magnus Larsson

New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.

— Walter Gropius

Concrete is momentarily unformed matter seeking its natural completion, filling in the last corners of its allowed space, finding a form. It is possibility…

— Mark Kingwell

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

— Daniel Libeskind

There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.

— Oscar Niemeyer

Everything is complicated about using concrete - the discipline and dedication necessary to make consistent batches, understanding exactly how the formwork will be laid,…

— Annabelle Selldorf

Each material is only what we make it.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself... New materials are not necessarily superior. Each…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

One of the most obvious reasons to start using timber rather than concrete is that it's the one commonly grown and therefore exceptionally renewable…

— Magnus Larsson

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

In fashion even what seems most fragile must be built on cement.

— Charles James

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