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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.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe's Popular Quotes

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

- Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

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

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

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We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself... New materials are not necessarily superior. Each mat…

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It is better to be good than to be original.

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

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Less is more.

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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 wh…

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