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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. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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" In addition to the wishes of the client, the position, orientation, and size of the plot also play an important role in determining the final plan of the house. The 'where' and 'how' of the exterior then follows naturally from all of that. "

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

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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. "

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

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" Every How is carried by a What. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" God is in the details. "

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" Form as a goal always ends in formalism. For this striving is directed not towards an inside, but towards an outside. But only a living inside has a living outside. "

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

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