Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes (6 quotes)

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a German-American architect. He was commonly referred to as Mies, his surname. Along with Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd Wright, he is regarded as one of the pioneers of modernist architecture.

Mies was the last director of the Bauhaus, a seminal school in modern architecture. After Nazism's rise to power, with its strong opposition to modernism , Mies emigrated to the United States. He accepted the position to head the architecture school at the Armour Institute of Technology , in Chicago.

Mies sought to establish his own particular architectural style that could represent modern times just as Classical and Gothic did for their own eras. He created his own twentieth-century architectural style, stated with extreme clarity and simplicity. His mature buildings made use of modern materials such as industrial steel and plate glass to define interior spaces, as also conducted by other modernist architects in the 1920s and 1930s such as Richard Neutra. Mies strove toward an architecture with a minimal framework of structural order balanced against the implied freedom of unobstructed free-flowing open space. He called his buildings "skin and bones" architecture. He sought an objective approach that would guide the creative process of architectural design, but was always concerned with expressing the spirit of the modern era. He is often associated with his fondness for the aphorisms, "less is more" and "God is in the details". Wikipedia

✵ 27. March 1886 – 17. August 1969

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: 6 quotes9 likes

Famous Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes

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

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“I don´t want to be interesting, I want to be good.”

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“Symmetry is the aesthetics of the stupid.”

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

An early appearance is "Symmetry is the aesthetics of the little man," which appears in the 1965 book Bauen auf dem Lande (Building in the Countryside), volumes 16-17. However, the quote has also variously been attributed to Picasso, Salvatore Dali and Friedensreich Hundertwasser. <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Source: "Symmetry is the aesthetics of the stupid." Mies van der Rohe (allegedly), 2018-01-21, 2017-11-12 http://falschzitate.blogspot.com/2017/11/symmetrie-ist-die-asthetik-der-dummen.html,

“Less is more.”

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Actually Robert Browning, from Andrea del Sarto. "Less is often more" was used still earlier by Christoph Martin Wieland.
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“God is in the details.”

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

"On restraint in Design" in The New York Herald Tribune (28 June 1959)