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.

- Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

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

- Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

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

- Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

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…

- Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

It is better to be good than to be original.

- Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

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

- Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Less is more.

- Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

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…

- Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe