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" If there really is no new way to be found, we are not afraid to stick with the old one that we found previously. So, I do not make every building different. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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" Just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, and just as we must understand functions, we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of the day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise, for we are dependent on the spirit of our time. "
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" 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. "
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" Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. "
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" 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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" Create form out of the nature of the task with the means of our time. This is our work. "
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" I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of light and shadow, as in ordinary buildings. "
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" It must be possible to solve the task of controlling nature and yet simultaneously create a new freedom. "
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" In addition to the wishes of the client, the position, orientation, and size of the plot also play an important role in determining the final plan of the house. The 'where' and 'how' of the exterior then follows naturally from all of that. "
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" When it becomes economically possible, building will become montage. "
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" 1926 was the most significant year. Looking back, it seems that it was not just a year in the sense of time. It was a year of great realisation or awareness. It seems to me that at certain times of the history of man, the understanding of certain situations ripens. "
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" It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of significance but the circumstance that antique temples, Roman basilicas, and even the cathedrals of the Middle Ages are not the works of single personalities but creations of entire epochs. "
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Us
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" It is a hopeless endeavor to make the form and content of earlier architectural epochs usable for our time; in this, even the strongest artistic talent must fail. We see repeatedly how the outstanding builders fail to achieve an effect because their work does not serve the will of the age. "
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" 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. "
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" We have to know that life cannot be changed by us. It will be changed. But not by us. We can only guide the things that can cause physical change. "
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" I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good. "
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" Every How is carried by a What. "
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" What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something imponderable, something that lies between things. "
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" A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous. "
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" We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject. "
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" The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens, then the buildings of our day will convey the greatness of which the age is capable, and only a fool will maintain that they lack it. "
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" The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it. "
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