Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let … - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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A free society is regarded as one that does not engage, on principle, in attempting to control what people find meaningful, and a totalitarian society is regarded as one that does, on principle, attempt such control.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead them into the healthy world of primitive building methods, where there was meaning in every stroke of an axe, expression in every bite of chisel.

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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.

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