Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order. Therefore, let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.
From Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
The architect must get to know the people who will live in the planned house. From their needs, the rest inevitably follows.
The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to its times and manifests itself only in addressing vital tasks with the means of its times. A knowledge of the times, its tasks, and its means is the necessary precondition of work in the building art.
The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it.
What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something imponderable, something that lies between things.
Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real historical movement - one of the great movements which shape and represent their epoch.
Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.
Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new building material is the first prerequisite.
I do not oppose form, but only form as a goal.
Just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, and just as we must understand functions, we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of the day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise, for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.
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