108 Quotes by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

God is in the details.

I don’t want to be interesting. I want to be good.

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet.

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood.

Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead them into the healthy world of primitive building methods, where there was meaning in every stroke of an axe, expression in every bite of chisel.

1926 was the most significant year. Looking back, it seems that it was not just a year in the sense of time. It was a year of great realisation or awareness. It seems to me that at certain times of the history of man, the understanding of certain situations ripens.

The idea of service leads to community.

Every How is carried by a What.

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.