Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes About Architecture

Quotes about: Architecture

• But what if we are dealing with fools?

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  What If, Fool, Architecture

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

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Two, Together, Bricks

• Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Architecture, Language, Poet

• 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. An architect of ability should be able to tell a client what he wants. Most of the time a client never knows what he wants.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Children, Want, Able

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Moisés Puente (2008). “Conversations with Mies Van Der Rohe”, p.17, Princeton Architectural Press

• I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Love, Family, Happiness

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Moisés Puente (2008). “Conversations with Mies Van Der Rohe”, p.56, Princeton Architectural Press

• If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgement. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Teaching, Responsibility, Order

• Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Badass, Bad Ass, Space

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Alexander von Vegesack, Matthias Kries, Vitra Design Museum (1998). “Mies van der Rohe: architecture and design in Stuttgart, Barcelona, Brno”, Skira - Berenice

• Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Real, Spirit, Architecture

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Moisés Puente (2008). “Conversations with Mies Van Der Rohe”, p.9, Princeton Architectural Press

• Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Age, Architecture, Spatial

  1922 De Stijl, vol.6.

• Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Order, Confusion, Architecture

• Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Two, Together, Bricks

• Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Children, Clients, Architecture

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Moisés Puente (2008). “Conversations with Mies Van Der Rohe”, p.17, Princeton Architectural Press

• Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Names, Architecture

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Moisés Puente (2008). “Conversations with Mies Van Der Rohe”, p.9, Princeton Architectural Press

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