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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