Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This is no less true of steel and concrete. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe More Quotes by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe More Quotes From Ludwig Mies van der Rohe What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something imponderable, something that lies between things. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe nothing something always beauty 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 you architecture hope children It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe never architecture age time 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 architecture space tomorrow today 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 quality architecture time art Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe slow structure architecture time Nature, too, shall live its own life. We must beware not to disrupt it with the color of our houses and interior fittings. yet we should not attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together into a higher unity. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe unity nature together life Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe architecture simple truth age 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. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe better fight you done The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe man building environment art We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe human unity nature together Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe architecture tomorrow yesterday today 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. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe spiritual work knowledge art We do not evaluate the result but the starting point of the creative process. Precisely, this shows whether the form was discovered by starting from life, or for its own sake. That is why I consider the creative process so essential. Life for us is the decisive factor. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe result own creative life
