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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.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
I thought a lot and I controlled my thoughts in my work - and I controlled my work through my thoughts.
— 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
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
The unformed is not worse than the over-formed. The former is nothing; the latter is mere appearance. Real form presupposes real life.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
God dwells in the details.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
I do not oppose form, but only form as a goal.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
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
We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
After my time in Holland, an inner battle ensued in which I tried to free myself from the influence of Schinkelesque classicism.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Every How is carried by a What.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
It is no use working with other architects. What can they do? Who does what?
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
I really don't know the Chicago School. You see, I never walk. I always take taxis back and forth to work. I rarely see the city.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
In 1912, when I was working in The Hague, I first saw a drawing by Louis Sullivan of one of his buildings. It interested me.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
It is much better to have just one idea, and if the idea is clear, then you can fight for it. That is how you can get things done.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Talent is only cream in your coffee. There is no reason to rest on your talent. If you don't present it, then it gets nowhere.
— Mies Van Der Rohe
You cannot save wonderful towns. You can only save wonderful towns by building new ones.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
I do not think it is an advantage to build planned packaged houses. If you prefabricate a house completely, it becomes an unnecessary restriction.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This is no less true of steel and concrete.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Loneliness was the price of the quest. I don't belong to the people who cannot live alone
— Mies Van Der Rohe
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
The idea of service leads to community.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
It is better to be good than to be original,
— 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
We have to know that life cannot be changed by us. It will be changed. But not by us. We can only guide the things that can cause physical change.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
When it becomes economically possible, building will become montage.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Generally, I think my work has so much influence because of its reasonableness.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
The architect must get to know the people who will live in the planned house. From their needs, the rest inevitably follows.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
I think that an industrial process is not like a rubber stamp. Everything has to be put together and, as such, should have its own expression.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
But what if we are dealing with fools?
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
It must be possible to solve the task of controlling nature and yet simultaneously create a new freedom.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.'
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
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.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
God is in the details, said the architect Ludwig mies van der Rohe.
— Robert C. Martin
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
It is not possible to go forward while looking back.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Behrens had a great sense of the great form. that was his main interest; and that I certainly understood and learned from him.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Create form out of the nature of the task with the means of our time. This is our work.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe