The unformed is not worse than the over-formed. The former is nothing; the latter is mere appearance. Real form presupposes real life.
From Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
It is not possible to go forward while looking back.
Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This is no less true of steel and concrete.
I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.
I do not think it is an advantage to build planned packaged houses. If you prefabricate a house completely, it becomes an unnecessary restriction.
Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.
It took me a long time to understand the relationship between ideas and between objective facts. But after I clearly understood this relationship, I didn't fool around with other wild ideas. That is one of the main reasons why I just make my scheme as simple as possible.
It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of significance but the circumstance that antique temples, Roman basilicas, and even the cathedrals of the Middle Ages are not the works of single personalities but creations of entire epochs.
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