Achievement Quote by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of significance but the circumstance that antique temples, Roman basilicas, and even the cathedrals of the Middle Ages are not the works of single personalities but creations of entire epochs.”

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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