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" You cannot save wonderful towns. You can only save wonderful towns by building new ones. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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" 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. "
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" I do not oppose form, but only form as a goal. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value. "
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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. "
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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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Say
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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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Chair
Design
Difficult
" 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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Want
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" God is in the details. "
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" I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good. "
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Interesting
Want
Good
" 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. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Enough
Three
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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
Work
You
Know
" 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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Time
Group
Important
" Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture. "
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Technology
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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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Technology
Present
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" I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of light and shadow, as in ordinary buildings. "
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Light
Important
Glass
" 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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Appearance
Real Life
Nothing
" 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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Think
" 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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Time
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" When it becomes economically possible, building will become montage. "
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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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Three
Spiritual
View
" 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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Spiritual
Day
Spirit
" Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. "
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" True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life. "
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Education
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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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