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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Read Quote
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. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Read Quote
We must understand the motives and forces of our time and analyze their structure from three points of view: the material, the functional, and the spiritual. We must make clear in what respects our epoch differs from others and in what respects it is similar. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Read Quote
I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of light and shadow, as in ordinary buildings. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Read Quote
