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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
Time Problem Problems Will Building Our Our Time Out Carrying Solved See Economic Also Industrialization Readily Artistic Central Social Succeed Technical
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
Time Day Age Fool Will Our Must Objectivity Only Maintain Clearly Demands Buildings Greatness Lack Happens Which Capable Convey Then Fulfilled Functionality
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
It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis. Luis Barragan
Vision Analysis Way See Architect Rational Know How Essential Mean Such A Way
Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all. Luis Barragan
Beauty Oracle Us Speaks
Traditionally, in the Eastern World, man and nature are close: men find happiness and prosperity in the beauty of nature, even if the nature is actually built to match this very need. Ma Yansong
Happiness Nature Man World Prosperity Men Beauty Eastern Find Match Built Very Close Even Actually Need
The difficulty with big cities does not lie in skyscrapers or high-rises per se; rather, it is the values concealed within those buildings which lead to the loss of our humanity and our sense of spiritual emptiness. Ma Yansong
Spiritual Humanity Lie Values Big Sense Difficulty Our Those Cities Per Rather Lead Concealed Emptiness Within Buildings Does Big Cities Loss Which Skyscrapers
We try to turn buildings into landscapes - defying the idea of modernism which sees nature and buildings as two distinct elements. Ma Yansong
Nature Try Distinct Defying Sees Idea Buildings Which Modernism Turn Landscapes Elements Two
Sometimes I sketch and then scan my sketch directly to make the curves more freehand. I don't want to make perfect industrial curves. Ma Yansong
Sometimes Scan More Directly Perfect Industrial Make Want Curves Sketch Then
Modern buildings have become memorials to power and capital. More and more, they're isolated from people. Ma Yansong
People Power Become Memorials More More And More Buildings Isolated Modern Capital
I'm trying to express nature in big cities. Ma Yansong
Nature Big Cities Big Cities Trying Express
When we talk about a city, we need to talk about what the future is. Whats the ideal scenario in the future? Ma Yansong
Future City About Scenario Ideal Talk Need
I think where traditional values are concerned, Chinese people see nature as very symbolic. It's a form of culture. Ma Yansong
Nature Culture People Values Think See Concerned Traditional Traditional Values Very Where Form Chinese Chinese People Symbolic
In China, we had some buildings that looked like the White House or wine bottles. All they seemed to represent was bad taste. Ma Yansong
Wine White White House Bad Some Seemed Bad Taste Had Bottles Like Looked House Buildings Taste Represent China
We need architects to be visionaries. Ma Yansong
Visionaries Architects Need
In the past, young, talented architects worked together to form a strong social agenda and communicate with a larger audience. That's what today's architecture community should be. Ma Yansong
Today Together Architecture Communicate Strong Past Young Community Architects Talented Audience Form In The Past Social Agenda Worked Should Larger
China is a place where you can experience two very contrasting things coexisting. First, the rich, cultural history of the country - and, second, rapid urbanization. Ma Yansong
History You Experience First Country Rich Rapid Cultural Very Contrasting Where Place China Things Second Two
A shan-shui city is a modern city, a high-density urban situation, but we pay more attention to the environment. We bring waterfalls; we bring in a lot of trees and gardens. We treat architecture as a landscape. Ma Yansong
Architecture Treat Situation Pay Trees City More Environment Attention Lot Modern Urban Landscape Gardens Bring
To allow millions of people to live together on limited land, we have to go to the sky; we have to build a high rise. But we can still build nature and social space into the towers. Each family can have their own courtyard in the sky. Ma Yansong
Family Nature Together People Space Sky Build Own Live High Rise Allow Towers Limited Still Go Social Land Each Millions Millions Of People
My first impression of Beverly Hills was that it had a landscape of small houses built by famous architects, so I didn't want to make a big block or sculpture here; I wanted to make a community rooted to the place. Ma Yansong
First Big Community Architects Small Had Beverly Beverly Hills First Impression Hills Make Houses Built Block Impression Famous Want Wanted Place Rooted Landscape Sculpture Here
We need to enter a new era to make nature and humans more emotionally connected in modern cities. Ma Yansong
Nature Enter Cities More Emotionally New Make New Era Era Modern Connected Humans Need
Chaoyang Park Plaza is about how to carry the traditional culture into a new format in modern architecture. Instead of building a boundary between the city and the park, I tried to design this building to emerge from the natural landscape. Ma Yansong
Culture Natural Architecture Building Design Plaza Carry Tried City Emerge About Park Instead Between Boundary New How Traditional Modern Format Landscape
In China, it's very easy to make architecture special because anything you design will look different, as most parts of the city are very similar. They make so many massive residential buildings. Ma Yansong
You Architecture Will Design City Easy Similar Look Most Massive Make Parts Because Buildings Very Different Anything China Special Many Residential
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