Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe — American Architect born on March 27, 1886, died on August 17, 1969

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a German-American architect. He is commonly referred to and was addressed as Mies, his surname. Along with Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd Wright, he is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of modern architecture... (wikipedia)

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

It is not possible to go forward while looking back.

True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.

I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of light and shadow, as in ordinary buildings.

The office building is a building for work, organization, lucidity and economy. Light, spacious working rooms, clearly arranged, undivided, only organized according to the pattern of the firm.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes

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