Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Quote by Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

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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...

Less is more.

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

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

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.

If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must...

If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must...

God is in the details.

God is in the details.

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 is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

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...

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in...

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in...

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture....

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture....

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be...

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be...

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

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...

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

The architectural profession gave the public 50 years of modern architecture and the public's response...

The architectural profession gave the public 50 years of modern architecture and the public's response...

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...

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as...

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as...