Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes

The English truly understand the dynamic between buildings and land.

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

The future of architecture is culture.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.

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

There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.

The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.

As a teenager, my father took me to the shows at the Architectural Association and to places like Milton Keynes back when it was first being built. But I couldn't find anything for me. There seemed to be despair at the possibility of the built environment possessing any imagination in the real world.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone.

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

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

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.

But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me.

Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.

I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it resonates with the culture of a place. So my buildings in India or in Kansas City or in Arkansas or in Singapore, they come out different because the places are so different.