The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time. We must have order, allocating to each thing it's proper place and giving to each…

Quote by Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

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...

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.

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,...

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...

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...

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles,...

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles,...

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like...

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like...

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...

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

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...

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...

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers...

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers...