Building Quote by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Download Open image “You cannot save wonderful towns. You can only save wonderful towns by building new ones.” — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Building Cannot New Only Wonderful
A lot of those ideal towns are all starting to look the same, the specifics are starting to disappear. So we need to retain… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them. — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
Towns have to evolve. Towns have to grow up. But not at the expense of the real people. — Alexandra C. Pelosi Copy Share Image
I don't like bad mouthing towns and just thinking that I live in such a great place. I mean, I would hate to live… — Carlos Dengler Copy Share Image
Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
No town can keep a man, but men keep towns. — William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling Copy Share Image
It's a difficult task to deal with cities. But with some original ways of getting things done, with some basic commandments, you can really… — Eduardo Paes Copy Share Image
You can save the city, but having the city be in jeopardy is one thing and having the people you care about be in… — Marc Guggenheim Copy Share Image
There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
Cities can be places that represent the best of our ideals: where Americans of all different backgrounds can come together and, through their interactions,… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Nature, too, shall live its own life. We must beware not to disrupt it with the color of our houses and interior fittings. yet… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, and just as we must understand functions, we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing.… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our… — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Copy Share Image
Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Generally, I think my work has so much influence because of its reasonableness. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
You can use up all the slums for new development. In all the cities of the world, there are large areas of these. Also,… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get… — Jim Cummings Copy Share Image
Absolutely, you can improve and become better at toughness. It's a talent, but it can be acquired, too. I think of it like building… — Jim Harbaugh Copy Share Image
T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now. — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image