Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes About Architecture
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Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet
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Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. He will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time. An architect of ability should be able to tell a client what he wants. Most of the time a client never knows what he wants.
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Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.
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Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children.
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If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgement. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order.
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Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.
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Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
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But what if we are dealing with fools?
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Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
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Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.
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Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.
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I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
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Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.
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