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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. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Light
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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 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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" Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order. Therefore, let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. "
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" We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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Day
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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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Know
People
" 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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" 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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House
Build
" We do not evaluate the result but the starting point of the creative process. Precisely, this shows whether the form was discovered by starting from life, or for its own sake. That is why I consider the creative process so essential. Life for us is the decisive factor. "
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Us
Result
Process
" 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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" 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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Truth
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Age
" The unformed is not worse than the over-formed. The former is nothing; the latter is mere appearance. Real form presupposes real life. "
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Appearance
Real Life
Nothing
" I do not oppose form, but only form as a goal. "
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" Nature, too, shall live its own life. We must beware not to disrupt it with the color of our houses and interior fittings. yet we should not attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together into a higher unity. "
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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 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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" Behrens had a great sense of the great form. that was his main interest; and that I certainly understood and learned from him. "
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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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Design
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" 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. "
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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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Way
Stick
" Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form. "
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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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Say
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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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" 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. "
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" Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates. "
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