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
reaches technology transcends
Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.
attempt beings bring higher human nature
We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.
aim beauty express meaning profound splendor truth words work
Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.'
freedom nature possible solve task
It must be possible to solve the task of controlling nature and yet simultaneously create a new freedom.
art environment himself masters
The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it.
area arrange bathroom believe decides developing justified remaining rooms
If one limits to developing only the kitchen and bathroom as standardized rooms because of their installation, and then also decides to arrange the remaining living area with movable walls, I believe that any justified living requirements can be met.
everybody insisted life man
What would life be like if everybody insisted you must have actually built such-and-such a thing by yourself? I'd be an old man and have nothing to show for the aging.
free inner time tried
After my time in Holland, an inner battle ensued in which I tried to free myself from the influence of Schinkelesque classicism.
certainly great main understood
Behrens had a great sense of the great form. that was his main interest; and that I certainly understood and learned from him.
industrial rubber
I think that an industrial process is not like a rubber stamp. Everything has to be put together and, as such, should have its own expression.
work
I thought a lot and I controlled my thoughts in my work - and I controlled my work through my thoughts.
architecture given
Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.
former latter life mere
The unformed is not worse than the over-formed. The former is nothing; the latter is mere appearance. Real form presupposes real life.
bread brought came five home lots people
Cheese was the staple. Bread you brought from home. The Schnaps came later. At the end of the week when people got paid, that's when you got your Schnaps, lots of it, five Pfennige a shot.