108 Quotes by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.

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.

Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.

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

Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.'

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

It must be possible to solve the task of controlling nature and yet simultaneously create a new freedom.

The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it.