A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only such architecture is creative.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order. Therefore, let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

God is in the details.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe