Conversations with Mies Van Der Rohe
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“Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.”
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“Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.”
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“Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.”
“Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children.”
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“Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.”
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“I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.”
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“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”
Source: Mies van der Rohe: architecture and design in Stuttgart, Barcelona, Brno
“Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.”
“The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.”
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“Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.”
“Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.”
“First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it.”
“No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood”
“Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet”