Ludwig Mies
Ludwig Mies
Born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies and known professionally as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe or simply Mies, this German architect was responsible for such modernist masterpieces as the Barcelona Pavilion and the Czech Republic's Villa Tugendhat.
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth27 March 1886
addition exterior final follows naturally plot role size
In addition to the wishes of the client, the position, orientation, and size of the plot also play an important role in determining the final plan of the house. The 'where' and 'how' of the exterior then follows naturally from all of that.
architecture hope inventions playground
I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.
brother family finishing gold leaf monuments people remember sisters souls touches
I especially remember that on All Souls Day, when so many people wanted new monuments for the graves, our whole family pitched in. I did the lettering on the stones, my brother did the carving, and my sisters put the finishing touches on them, the gold leaf and all that.
bread brought came five home lots people
Cheese was the staple. Bread you brought from home. The Schnaps came later. At the end of the week when people got paid, that's when you got your Schnaps, lots of it, five Pfennige a shot.
When it becomes economically possible, building will become montage.
former latter life mere
The unformed is not worse than the over-formed. The former is nothing; the latter is mere appearance. Real form presupposes real life.
architecture given
Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.
work
I thought a lot and I controlled my thoughts in my work - and I controlled my work through my thoughts.
industrial rubber
I think that an industrial process is not like a rubber stamp. Everything has to be put together and, as such, should have its own expression.
certainly great main understood
Behrens had a great sense of the great form. that was his main interest; and that I certainly understood and learned from him.
free inner time tried
After my time in Holland, an inner battle ensued in which I tried to free myself from the influence of Schinkelesque classicism.
everybody insisted life man
What would life be like if everybody insisted you must have actually built such-and-such a thing by yourself? I'd be an old man and have nothing to show for the aging.
area arrange bathroom believe decides developing justified remaining rooms
If one limits to developing only the kitchen and bathroom as standardized rooms because of their installation, and then also decides to arrange the remaining living area with movable walls, I believe that any justified living requirements can be met.
art environment himself masters
The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it.