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Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead them into the healthy world of primitive building methods, where there was meaning in every stroke of an axe, expression in every bite of chisel.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe's Popular Quotes

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

- Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

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

- Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

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

- Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

It is better to be good than to be original.

- 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

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

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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