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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Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

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

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

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

God is in the details.

God is in the details.

Less is more.

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.

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...

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

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

Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can...

Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can...

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more...

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more...

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

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,...

Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.

Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

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...

[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination...

[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination...

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

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...

This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in...

This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in...

The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a...

The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a...