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I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
Less is more.
God is in the details.
[In art], less is more.
God dwells in the details.
Every How is carried by a What.
But what if we are dealing with fools?
Each material is only what we make it.
The idea of service leads to community.
It is better to be good than to be original.
I do not oppose form, but only form as a goal.
Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.
It is not possible to go forward while looking back.
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.
Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.
Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.
When it becomes economically possible, building will become montage.
Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet
First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it.
Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.
Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.
Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children.
It is no use working with other architects. What can they do? Who does what?
Generally, I think my work has so much influence because of its reasonableness.
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.
Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.
We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.
Create form out of the nature of the task with the means of our time. This is our work.
You cannot save wonderful towns. You can only save wonderful towns by building new ones.
No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood
Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.
Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
I thought a lot and I controlled my thoughts in my work - and I controlled my work through my thoughts.
It must be possible to solve the task of controlling nature and yet simultaneously create a new freedom.
Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.
Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.
We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature.
The architect must get to know the people who will live in the planned house. From their needs, the rest inevitably follows.
In 1912, when I was working in The Hague, I first saw a drawing by Louis Sullivan of one of his buildings. It interested me.
Behrens had a great sense of the great form. that was his main interest; and that I certainly understood and learned from him.
After my time in Holland, an inner battle ensued in which I tried to free myself from the influence of Schinkelesque classicism.
I really don't know the Chicago School. You see, I never walk. I always take taxis back and forth to work. I rarely see the city.
It is much better to have just one idea, and if the idea is clear, then you can fight for it. That is how you can get things done.
The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it.
The unformed is not worse than the over-formed. The former is nothing; the latter is mere appearance. Real form presupposes real life.
Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.'
Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This is no less true of steel and concrete.
