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
design id material materials possible specific understand until
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.
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,
what-if fool architecture
But what if we are dealing with fools?
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.
building cannot save towns wonderful
You cannot save wonderful towns. You can only save wonderful towns by building new ones.
buildings greater structural wisdom
Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored.
carrying designs developed life practical
Most of our designs are developed long before there is a practical possibility of carrying them out. I do that on purpose and have done it all my life. I do it when I am interested in something.
architect inevitably people
The architect must get to know the people who will live in the planned house. From their needs, the rest inevitably follows.
architecture epoch given translated
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only such architecture is creative.