American - Architect | March 27, 1886 - August 17, 1969
It is not possible to go forward while looking back.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
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A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
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Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
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Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.
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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.
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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.
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Less is more.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I especially remember that on All Souls Day, when so many people wanted new monuments for the graves, our whole family pitched in. I did the lettering on the stones, my brother did the carving, and my sisters put the finishing touches on them, the gold leaf and all that.
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