Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohewas a German-American architect. He is commonly referred to and was addressed as Mies, his surname. Along with Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd Wright, he is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of modern architecture...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth27 March 1886
CountryUnited States of America
architecture language poet
Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet
details attention
God dwells in the details.
badass bad-ass space
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
be-good originals
It is better to be good than to be original,
education learning firsts
First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it.
names architecture
Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.
song expression echoes
Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of the old. Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? Here the wisdom of whole generations is stored. What feelings for material and what power of expression there is in these buildings! What warmth and beauty they have! They seem to be echoes of old songs.
what-if fool architecture
But what if we are dealing with fools?
building should function
We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be...
discipline creative students
Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.
money business years
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.
materials
Each material is only what we make it.
artistic building carrying central readily time
I see in industrialization the central problem of building in our time. If we succeed in carrying out this industrialization, the social, economic, technical, and also artistic problems will be readily solved.
dominates future great historical movement movements present represent rooted shape technology tends
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.