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" Create form out of the nature of the task with the means of our time. This is our work. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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" Technology is far more than a method, it is a world in itself. As a method, it is superior in almost every respect. But only where it is left to itself, as in gigantic structures of engineering, there technology reveals its true nature. "

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" Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces. "

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" It is much better to have just one idea, and if the idea is clear, then you can fight for it. That is how you can get things done. "

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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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" You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them a sense of proportions - of order. You can teach them general principles. "

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" God is in the details. "

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" After my time in Holland, an inner battle ensued in which I tried to free myself from the influence of Schinkelesque classicism. "

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" Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A construction of girders that carry the weight, and walls that carry no weight. That is to say, buildings consisting of skin and bones. "

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" Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important as the buildings themselves. "

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" I do not think it is an advantage to build planned packaged houses. If you prefabricate a house completely, it becomes an unnecessary restriction. "

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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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" We made drawings the size of a whole quarter of a room ceiling, which we would then send on to the model makers. I did this every day for two years. Even now I can draw cartouches with my eyes closed. "

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" Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates. "

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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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" It took me a long time to understand the relationship between ideas and between objective facts. But after I clearly understood this relationship, I didn't fool around with other wild ideas. That is one of the main reasons why I just make my scheme as simple as possible. "

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" When one looks at Nature through the glass walls of the Farnsworth House, it takes on a deeper significance than when one stands outside. More of Nature is thus expressed - it becomes part of a greater whole. "

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" We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity. "

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" I thought a lot and I controlled my thoughts in my work - and I controlled my work through my thoughts. "

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" The architect must get to know the people who will live in the planned house. From their needs, the rest inevitably follows. "

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" Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance. "

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" The office building is a building for work, organization, lucidity and economy. Light, spacious working rooms, clearly arranged, undivided, only organized according to the pattern of the firm. "

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" Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together. "

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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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" 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. "

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