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.
From Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.
You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them a sense of proportions - of order. You can teach them general principles.
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.
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
I thought a lot and I controlled my thoughts in my work - and I controlled my work through my thoughts.
We do not evaluate the result but the starting point of the creative process. Precisely, this shows whether the form was discovered by starting from life, or for its own sake. That is why I consider the creative process so essential. Life for us is the decisive factor.
Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.
Less is more.
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