Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes - Page 2

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• [In art], less is more.

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  Art, Less Is More

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• Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

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  Two, Together, Bricks

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• The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.

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  Destiny, Losing, Individual

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1970). “Mies van der Rohe”

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

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  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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• Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

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  Mean, Desire, Dignity

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• Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.

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  Discipline, Creative, Students

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

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  Children, Clients, Architecture

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

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• Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead them into the healthy world of primitive building methods, where there was meaning in every stroke of an axe, expression in every bite of chisel.

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  Expression, Discipline, Creative

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• 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

  Money, Business, Years

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