Best quotes by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe on Architecture

Checkout quotes by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe on Architecture

  • Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
    - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
    - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Less is more.
    - 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.
    - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only such architecture is creative.
    - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.
    - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.
    - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.
    - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.
    - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.
    - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • 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.
    - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe