108 Quotes by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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.

Create form out of the nature of the task with the means of our time. This is our work.

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

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.

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.

Most of our designs are developed long before there is a practical possibility of carrying them out. I do that on purpose and have done it all my life. I do it when I am interested in something.

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.

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.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.