Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes

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.

I don't see any difference between architecture and engineering. It's the same profession.

Architecture is not about form

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

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

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.

To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

If I weren't involved with food, I'd be working in architecture. Design is that critical to me.

Early in my career, I tried to bring an artistic feeling to architecture. That's really the intent and impression of what I think about: context, space, shapes, and landscape.

It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it.

Cut out doors and windows for the house. The holes make it useful.

To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.

I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.

Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.

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