Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration.

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.

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

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

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

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

I'm very interested in architecture.

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

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.

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.

Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.

Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

When I was in architecture school, I became curious about the exact mathematics, physics, and construction of the great structures I had been studying. I wanted to know how these amazing things would work: the Pantheon, the dome of Michelangelo, the dome of Brunelleschi. So I decided to study civil engineering.

I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.

Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.

Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.

People outside the profession of architecture perhaps often lack the understanding of how their physical environment comes into being. What are the processes, the concerns and considerations? What are the parameters that shape the world around them?

I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.

I object to the hegemony of form in contemporary architecture. We have very advanced technological tools, but ultimately, we create buildings exactly like we used to before: We send the drawings to an engineer and let him struggle with figuring out how to build it.

Ultimately, the artistic part of architecture has always interested me.

A lasting architecture has to have roots.

Construction will always be needed. You will always need to renovate projects.