Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“God is in the details.”

“A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.”

“Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.'”

“Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.”

“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.”

“Less is more.”

“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”

“Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.”

“Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.”

“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.”

“Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.”

“Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.”

“Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.”

“What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something imponderable, something that lies between things.”

“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.”

“Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.”

“I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.”

“The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions.”

“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.”

“Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces.”

“Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order. Therefore, let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.”