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" Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This is no less true of steel and concrete. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Understand
Concrete
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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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" The tendency of our time is wholly oriented toward the secular. The efforts of the mystics will remain episodes. Despite a deepening of our conceptions of life, we will build no cathedrals. "
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" Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age. "
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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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" 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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" In 1912, when I was working in The Hague, I first saw a drawing by Louis Sullivan of one of his buildings. It interested me. "
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" Every How is carried by a What. "
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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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" Form as a goal always ends in formalism. For this striving is directed not towards an inside, but towards an outside. But only a living inside has a living outside. "
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Living
Always
" 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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" 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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Great
Time
" Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value. "
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Ends
Must
" Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance. "
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Facts
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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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" 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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Man
You
Yourself
" You can use up all the slums for new development. In all the cities of the world, there are large areas of these. Also, you can avoid the spread of these silly suburban houses. Chicago has thousands of them all over the place. "
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World
You
Chicago
" 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. "
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Process
Together
Think
" 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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Beauty
Things
Always
" 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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I Can
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" It is not possible to go forward while looking back. "
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" The idea of service leads to community. "
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Idea
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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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" When it becomes economically possible, building will become montage. "
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" Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture. "
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" True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life. "
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Spiritual
True
" I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good. "
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Want
Good
" Generally, I think my work has so much influence because of its reasonableness. "
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Think
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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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Organization
Work
" We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity. "
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Together
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" Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. he will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time. "
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