Quotes by : Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth....

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty....

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

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

Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function,....

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

We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.

Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find....

Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics.....