We must understand the motives and forces of our time and analyze their structure from three points of view: the material, the functional, and the spiritual. We must make clear in what respects our epoch differs from others and in what respects it is similar.
From Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I see in industrialization the central problem of building in our time. If we succeed in carrying out this industrialization, the social, economic, technical, and also artistic problems will be readily solved.
I really don't know the Chicago School. You see, I never walk. I always take taxis back and forth to work. I rarely see the city.
Generally, I think my work has so much influence because of its reasonableness.
Most of our designs are developed long before there is a practical possibility of carrying them out. I do that on purpose and have done it all my life. I do it when I am interested in something.
It is much better to have just one idea, and if the idea is clear, then you can fight for it. That is how you can get things done.
The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions.
Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important as the buildings themselves.
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