Ludwig Mies
Ludwig Mies
Born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies and known professionally as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe or simply Mies, this German architect was responsible for such modernist masterpieces as the Barcelona Pavilion and the Czech Republic's Villa Tugendhat.
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth27 March 1886
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Each material has its specific characteristics in which we must understand it if we want to use it. In other words, no design id possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood.
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Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet
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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.
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Less is more.
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God dwells in the details.
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Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.
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Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
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And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of our day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise; for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.
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I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
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True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.
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It is better to be good than to be original,
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First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it.
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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.