108 Quotes by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.

Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children.

But what if we are dealing with fools?

Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of the old. Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? Here the wisdom of whole generations is stored. What feelings for material and what power of expression there is in these buildings! What warmth and beauty they have! They seem to be echoes of old songs.

Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.

It is better to be good than to be original,

First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it.

If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgement. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order.

The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.