Quotes by
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
1886-1969 , German-American architect
German-American architect, academic, and interior designer. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of modern architecture.In the 1930s, he was the last director of the Bauhaus, a ground-breaking school of modernist art, design and architecture. After Nazism’s rise to power, Mies emigrated to the United States. He accepted the position to head the architecture school at what is today the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT).
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Quotations
| • | Less is more. (First appeared in a Robert Browning poem, but Van der Rohe popularized it) 3 |
| • | God is in the details. |
| • | Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. |
| • | I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good. |
| • | Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names. |
| • | Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. |
| • | Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet. |
