Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance. -Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Architecture
Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture. -Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Architecture
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous. -Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Famous
True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life. -Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Education
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 Architecture
Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates. -Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Architecture
Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. he will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time. -Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Architecture
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. -Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Architecture
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 Alone
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 Architecture
It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise. -Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Architecture
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 Knowledge
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 Architecture
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 Space
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 Beauty
Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture. -Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Technology
Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored. -Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Wisdom
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 Money
