Ludwig Mies
Ludwig Mies
Born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies and known professionally as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe or simply Mies, this German architect was responsible for such modernist masterpieces as the Barcelona Pavilion and the Czech Republic's Villa Tugendhat.
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth27 March 1886
mean desire dignity
Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.
discipline creative students
Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.
money business years
Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.
two together bricks
Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.
order giving dues
We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature.
names architecture
Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.
children clients architecture
Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children.
what-if fool architecture
But what if we are dealing with fools?
song expression echoes
Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of the old. Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? Here the wisdom of whole generations is stored. What feelings for material and what power of expression there is in these buildings! What warmth and beauty they have! They seem to be echoes of old songs.
real architecture spirit
Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.
be-good originals
It is better to be good than to be original,
education learning firsts
First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it.
teaching responsibility order
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.
destiny losing individual
The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.