Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Buildings Quotations

The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens, then the buildings of our day will convey the greatness of which the age is capable, and only a fool will maintain that they lack it.

Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important as the buildings themselves.

Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored.