Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Mean Quotations

The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to its times and manifests itself only in addressing vital tasks with the means of its times. A knowledge of the times, its tasks, and its means is the necessary precondition of work in the building art.

Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.'

Create form out of the nature of the task with the means of our time. This is our work.

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