Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.”
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“The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.”
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“I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.”
-- Ludwig Mies van der RoheSource : Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Moisés Puente (2008). “Conversations with Mies Van Der Rohe”, p.56, Princeton Architectural Press
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“Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet”
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“Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children.”
-- Ludwig Mies van der RoheSource : Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Moisés Puente (2008). “Conversations with Mies Van Der Rohe”, p.17, Princeton Architectural Press
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“No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood”
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“A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.”
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“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.”
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“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”
-- Ludwig Mies van der RoheSource : Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Alexander von Vegesack, Matthias Kries, Vitra Design Museum (1998). “Mies van der Rohe: architecture and design in Stuttgart, Barcelona, Brno”, Skira - Berenice
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“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 must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order.”
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“Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.”
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“Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.”
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“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 of primitive building methods, where there was meaning in every stroke of an axe, expression in every bite of chisel.”
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“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 and form? Here the wisdom of whole generations is stored. What feelings for material and what power of expression there is in these buildings! What warmth and beauty they have! They seem to be echoes of old songs.”
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“Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.”
-- Ludwig Mies van der RoheSource : 1922 De Stijl, vol.6.
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“Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.”
-- Ludwig Mies van der RoheSource : Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Moisés Puente (2008). “Conversations with Mies Van Der Rohe”, p.9, Princeton Architectural Press
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“Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.”
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“We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature.”
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“We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself... New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material is only what we make it.”
-- Ludwig Mies van der RoheSource : Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.96, Shambhala Publications
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“Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.”
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“True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.”
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“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 of our day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise; for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.”
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“First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it.”
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“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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“It is better to be good than to be original,”
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“Each material is only what we make it.”
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“We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be...”
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