If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgement. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order.

Quote by Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

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Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in...

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in...

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

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

Less is more.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

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

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

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

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

God is in the details.

God is in the details.

The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to...

The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to...

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Architects believe that not only do they sit at the right hand of God, but...

Architects believe that not only do they sit at the right hand of God, but...

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building...

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building...

Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to...

Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to...

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul...

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul...

Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry,...

Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry,...

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that...

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that...

I think Ms. Monroe's architecture is extremely good architecture.

I think Ms. Monroe's architecture is extremely good architecture.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the...

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the...

Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is...

Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is...

A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture.

A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture.

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The...

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The...