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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (/miːs/ MEESS; German: [miːs]; born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, 1886 – August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect. He is commonly referred to and was addressed as Mies, his surname. Along with Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd Wright, he is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of modernist architecture.

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It is better to be good than to be original.

Be Good, Good, Original, Originals

The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time.

Order, Long, Goal, Function, Create, Desperate

And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of our day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise; for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.

Become, Cultural, Function, Psychological, Spiritual, Time

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

Family, Good, Happiness, Interesting, Love

We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself. . . New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material is only what we make it.

Everything, Materials, Remember, Superior, Use

Each material is only what we make it.

Materials, Material, Make

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

Completely, Design, Materials, Understood

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.

Beauty, Echoes, Expression, Greater, Song, Wisdom

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

Names, Architecture, Wrote, Epochs, Gave

God is in the details.

Details, Educational, God, Learning

We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature.

Order, Giving, Dues, Due, Allocating

Less Is More, Writing

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.

Able, Architecture, Children, Good, Knows, Want

[In art], less is more.

Art, Less Is More

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

Desire, Dignity, Ends, Mean, Value

We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.

Building, Familiar, Function, Functions, Learn, Should

Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children.

Architecture, Children, Client, Clients

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Architecture, Begins, Bricks, Carefully, Together, Two

First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it.

Education, Firsts, Learn, Learning

Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.

Creative, Discipline, Materials, Road, Students, Work

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