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" I thought a lot and I controlled my thoughts in my work - and I controlled my work through my thoughts. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Thoughts
Through
Work
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" 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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" 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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" It is not possible to go forward while looking back. "
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" Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. "
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" Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value. "
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" God is in the details. "
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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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" Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form. "
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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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" 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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" Create form out of the nature of the task with the means of our time. This is our work. "
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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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" 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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Things
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" It is no use working with other architects. What can they do? Who does what? "
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" I especially remember that on All Souls Day, when so many people wanted new monuments for the graves, our whole family pitched in. I did the lettering on the stones, my brother did the carving, and my sisters put the finishing touches on them, the gold leaf and all that. "
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Family
Gold
People
" 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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" Generally, I think my work has so much influence because of its reasonableness. "
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Think
Work
" Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together. "
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Together
Two
" Behrens had a great sense of the great form. that was his main interest; and that I certainly understood and learned from him. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Him
Understood
Sense
" 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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Building
Aim
Work
" 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
" 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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" Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates. "
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" Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new building material is the first prerequisite. "
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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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" 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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Glass
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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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Nature
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" We must understand the motives and forces of our time and analyze their structure from three points of view: the material, the functional, and the spiritual. We must make clear in what respects our epoch differs from others and in what respects it is similar. "
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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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