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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. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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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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" 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

" I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" 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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" Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value. "

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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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" I really don't know the Chicago School. You see, I never walk. I always take taxis back and forth to work. I rarely see the city. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" 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 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. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" 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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" 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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" 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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" A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous. "

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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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" 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. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" 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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" 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. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" 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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" 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. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" 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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" Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" It must be possible to solve the task of controlling nature and yet simultaneously create a new freedom. "

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" God is in the details. "

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