Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American Architect
Born: Mar 27, 1886
Died: Aug 17, 1969
Architecture Building Time Will Work You
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A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Design Difficult Easier Object Almost Very Famous Skyscraper Chair Why
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 our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Work Education Creative Discipline Judgment Our Guide Responsible Must Clarity Rational Through Lead Students Road True Over Opinion Materials Intellectual Irresponsible Order Us Therefore Creative Work Function Let Us Chance
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
Life Change Cause Will Changed Guide Physical Only Know Cannot Us Things
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
You Together Architecture Carefully Starts Put Begins Bricks Two
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
You Fight Better Clear Idea How Get Done Just Just One Then Much Things
Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A construction of girders that carry the weight, and walls that carry no weight. That is to say, buildings consisting of skin and bones. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Nature Construction Walls Skin Say Consisting Carry Weight Buildings Concrete Noodles Nor Reinforced Bones
Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
You Together Architecture Carefully Begins Place Bricks Two
It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of significance but the circumstance that antique temples, Roman basilicas, and even the cathedrals of the Middle Ages are not the works of single personalities but creations of entire epochs. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Achievement Single Circumstance Significance Temples Entire Seem Architectural Structures Cathedrals Makes Times Antique Roman Middle Middle Ages Personalities Us Ages Creations Full Works Even Earlier
The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Art Time Quality Architecture Problem Nothing Cost Fact Through Proportions Throughout Almost Most Reached Always Been Question Authentic Same In Fact Them Themselves Among Things
We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Nature Together Unity Higher Attempt Houses Human Human Beings Should Beings Bring
We do not evaluate the result but the starting point of the creative process. Precisely, this shows whether the form was discovered by starting from life, or for its own sake. That is why I consider the creative process so essential. Life for us is the decisive factor. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Life Creative Result Creative Process Own Consider Point Factor Sake Discovered Precisely Essential Form Process Whether Decisive Us Evaluate Shows Why Starting Starting Point
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
Work Truth Words Better Beauty Nothing Aim Our Splendor Augustine Than Meaning Meaning Of Express Profound
We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Work Result Problems Building Aim Our Recognize Only Does Exist Itself Refuse Form Reject
The idea of service leads to community. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Service Community Idea Leads
I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Hope You Architecture Old Will Young Nothing Battleground Spirit Inventions Understand Real Children Forms Playground
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
Today Creative Architecture Space Tomorrow Will Yesterday Living Changing Given Only New Form Translated Epoch
Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Time Architecture Slow Structure Depends Unfolding Form Inner
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
Art Man Building He Environment Himself Masters How Dialogue His Spatial Therein
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 knowledge of the times, its tasks, and its means is the necessary precondition of work in the building art. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Work Art Spiritual Knowledge Reality Building Addressing Vital Only Bound Execution Always Itself Times Tasks Decisions Means Spatial Necessary
Create form out of the nature of the task with the means of our time. This is our work. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Work Time Nature Our Our Time Out Task Form Create Means
Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Technology Architecture Real Transcends Wherever Fulfillment
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
Great Sense Main Had Great Sense Him Learned Understood His Form Interest Certainly
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
Time Myself Battle Free Tried My Time Influence After Which Holland Inner
You cannot save wonderful towns. You can only save wonderful towns by building new ones. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
You Wonderful Building Only New Towns New Ones Cannot Save
It must be possible to solve the task of controlling nature and yet simultaneously create a new freedom. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Freedom Nature Controlling Possible Must Solve Simultaneously New Task Create
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
Age Architecture Will Become Our Only Structures Through Mature Fulfillment Function Utilitarian
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