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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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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

Buy Alone Money Three Saved Enough Medium-Sized Enough Money Castle Castles Simply Insurance Years Owning Forty Forty Years Last

Generally, I think my work has so much influence because of its reasonableness. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Work Think Generally Because Influence Much

It is no use working with other architects. What can they do? Who does what? Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Other Architects Does Working Use Who

Cheese was the staple. Bread you brought from home. The Schnaps came later. At the end of the week when people got paid, that's when you got your Schnaps, lots of it, five Pfennige a shot. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Home You People Cheese Later Brought Week Got Came Lots End Five Bread Shot Paid Your Staple

I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of light and shadow, as in ordinary buildings. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Light Important Shadow Glass Buildings Important Thing Discovered Effect Reflections Models Ordinary Working Actual Play Thing

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

Work Thoughts Thought Through Lot Controlled

1926 was the most significant year. Looking back, it seems that it was not just a year in the sense of time. It was a year of great realisation or awareness. It seems to me that at certain times of the history of man, the understanding of certain situations ripens. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real historical movement - one of the great movements which shape and represent their epoch. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Future Great Technology Past Tends Shape Real Historical Represent Movement Movements In The Past Which Rooted Epoch Present

I see in industrialization the central problem of building in our time. If we succeed in carrying out this industrialization, the social, economic, technical, and also artistic problems will be readily solved. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Every How is carried by a What. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Every Carried How

The tendency of our time is wholly oriented toward the secular. The efforts of the mystics will remain episodes. Despite a deepening of our conceptions of life, we will build no cathedrals. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Life Time Will Secular Build Despite Our Our Time Remain Tendency Toward Cathedrals Efforts Episodes Oriented Wholly Deepening

The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens, then the buildings of our day will convey the greatness of which the age is capable, and only a fool will maintain that they lack it. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The office building is a building for work, organization, lucidity and economy. Light, spacious working rooms, clearly arranged, undivided, only organized according to the pattern of the firm. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Work Light Organization Building Only Firm Clearly Economy Arranged According Office Pattern Rooms Working Organized

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