Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes

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

Just taking a piece of dirt and envisioning the building you'd like to put on it - it's an amazing process.

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

I love architecture.

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

I'm very interested in architecture.

I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.

Architecture is invention.

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

Frank Lloyd Wright made houses right up until the end. I think that's important because it gives you a direct connection to all the basic aspects of architecture - the spatial energy of the place, the construction, the materials, the site, the detail.

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect.

I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.

The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.

Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

It's important for people who criticise architects - whether what they build is or isn't to your taste - to appreciate how they devote themselves and put everything into bringing a building into existence.

I was always really geeky about design and buildings. Always into architecture as a kid.

I am involved in the architecture of space.

The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.