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.
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,
names architecture
Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.
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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.
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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.
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You cannot save wonderful towns. You can only save wonderful towns by building new ones.