American - Architect | March 27, 1886 - August 17, 1969
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
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Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.
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The architect must get to know the people who will live in the planned house. From their needs, the rest inevitably follows.
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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.
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We made drawings the size of a whole quarter of a room ceiling, which we would then send on to the model makers. I did this every day for two years. Even now I can draw cartouches with my eyes closed.
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In addition to the wishes of the client, the position, orientation, and size of the plot also play an important role in determining the final plan of the house. The 'where' and 'how' of the exterior then follows naturally from all of that.
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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.
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Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.
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Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new building material is the first prerequisite.
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I really don't know the Chicago School. You see, I never walk. I always take taxis back and forth to work. I rarely see the city.
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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.
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Behrens had a great sense of the great form. that was his main interest; and that I certainly understood and learned from him.
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