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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. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Light
Organization
Work
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" The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to its times and manifests itself only in addressing vital tasks with the means of its times. A knowledge of the times, its tasks, and its means is the necessary precondition of work in the building art. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Knowledge
" The idea of service leads to community. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Community
Idea
Leads
" 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
Wisdom
Unity
Clarity
" Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Real
Facts
Architecture
" 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. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Work
Achieve
Talent
" 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. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
You
Things
Fight
" 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. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
World
True
Technology
" 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
Ideas
Time
Simple
" 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. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Three
Spiritual
View
" 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
First
Building
New
" 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. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Walls
Glass
House
" 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
Hope
Young
Architecture
" 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. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Spiritual
Day
Spirit
" It is no use working with other architects. What can they do? Who does what? "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Working
Who
Use
" 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
" Every How is carried by a What. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Carried
Every
How
" The architect must get to know the people who will live in the planned house. From their needs, the rest inevitably follows. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
House
Know
People
" 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. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Buildings
First
Me
" It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Never
Age
Through
" 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. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Own
Nature
Live
" 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. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Process
Together
Think
" The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Environment
Masters
Art
" Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Today
Tomorrow
Yesterday
" 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. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Now
I Can
Eyes
" Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Architecture
Together
Two
" Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Slow
Structure
Architecture
" 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. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Politics
Say
Time
" We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Nature
Together
Unity
" Create form out of the nature of the task with the means of our time. This is our work. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Out
Task
Time
" 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. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Age