Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only such architecture is creative.

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces.

Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

When we project the specific organization of the human body into the space outside it, then we have architecture.

Architecture, like dance, is also a language - one that everybody understands.

Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.

Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.

Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.

Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.

I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.

I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.

Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise.