Ludwig Mies van der RoheThinkers

Architecture is a language, and when very good, the architect is a poet.

Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space nothing else.

Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space nothing else. To fail to realize this is to condemn it to being a mere chaos of uncoordinated forces.

Architecture is necessarily bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise.

Architecture is necessarily bound to its time. It manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age.

Architecture is not at all concerned with the inventions of forms. It is the real battleground of the spirit, and not a playground for children, young or old.

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

Architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms, rather, it is the battleground of the spirit.

Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.

Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.

Architecture is tasked with but one thing: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.