“ 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 buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany. 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 material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“ A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous. 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
“ Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“ Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“ Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order. Therefore, let us guide ou… Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“ Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“ What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something imponderable, something that lies between things. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“ Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only such architecture is creative. 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
“ The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to its times and manifests itself only in addressing vital tasks with the means of its times. A knowle… Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“ Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aim… Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“ Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“ Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“ It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
