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" It is not possible to go forward while looking back. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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" Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. "

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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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" 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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" You cannot save wonderful towns. You can only save wonderful towns by building new ones. "

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

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" Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real historical movement - one of the great movements which shape and represent their epoch. "

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

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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. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" 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. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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 depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form. "

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" The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions. "

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" The idea of service leads to community. "

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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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" 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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" Less is more. "

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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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" God is in the details. "

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

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