Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

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

The unformed is not worse than the over-formed. The former is nothing; the latter is mere appearance. Real form presupposes real life.

We do not evaluate the result but the starting point of the creative process. Precisely, this shows whether the form was discovered by starting from life, or for its own sake. That is why I consider the creative process so essential. Life for us is the decisive factor.

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.

Generally, I think my work has so much influence because of its reasonableness.

Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.

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

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

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

Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.

We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.