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

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update April 6, 2022. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space." by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe?

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 6

German architect 1886–1969

Claude Bragdon (1866–1946) American architect

Architecture and Democracy http://books.google.com/books?id=_88YAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Architecture+is+the+concrete+presentment+in+space+of+the+soul+of+a+people%22&pg=PA176#v=onepage (1918)

“The central problem of architecture is space. Space is essential for the individual and for the community. This is equally true for the small space (the capsule) as well as for the large space”

Justus Dahinden (1925) Swiss architect

the city
Justus Dahinden Architektur - Architecture (Krämer Publ. 1987), ISBN 3-7828-1601-3

“The new architecture considers not only space, but also time to be an architectural value. The unity of space and time will give architecture a new form of appearance, which is more complete. This is what is meant by 'active space'.... the dissimilar space-cells develop eccentrically from the center to the borders of the cube, thereby granting a new plastic quality to the dimensions of height, width, depth, and time.”

Theo van Doesburg (1883–1931) Dutch architect, painter, draughtsman and writer

Quote from his unpublished writing, 'Fundamental principles', 1930; as cited in Theo van Doesburg, Joost Baljeu, Studio Vista, London 1974, p. 203
1926 – 1931

“Spaces that trigger emotions alter the behaviour of people. Architecture aims at influencing human behaviour by space creations.”

Justus Dahinden (1925) Swiss architect

Räume, die Empfindungen auslösen, verändern das Verhalten des Menschen. Die Verhaltensbeeinflussung des Menschen durch die gestaltete Umwelt ist eine qualitative Zielsetzung des architektonischen Entwurfs.
Man and Space - Mensch und Raum 2005

“In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.”

Carl Sagan book Cosmos

Dedication
Source: Cosmos (1980)

“Speech structures the abyss of mental and acoustic space…it is a cosmic, invisible architecture of the human dark.”

Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …

Source: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 13

“Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me — the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.”

Barbara Kruger (1945) American artist

Source: Art in America, Vol. 85, Nr. 10-12 (1997), p. 96

“The plastic expression of space is inconceivable without light. Light and space complete one another. In architecture light represents an element of plastic expression – in fact, the most important one. An organic relationship between 'space' and 'material' is possible only with the aid of light. The highest achievements in architecture can be accomplished only if light also is treated as plastic form.”

Theo van Doesburg (1883–1931) Dutch architect, painter, draughtsman and writer

Quote in van Doesburg's article: 'Space – time and colour' in 'De Stijl', Aubette Issue, series xv, 87-9, 1928, pp. 26–27
1926 – 1931

“The purpose of architecture is to transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an organized unity.”

El Lissitsky (1890–1941) Soviet artist, designer, photographer, teacher, typographer and architect

quote, p. 384
posthumous publications, El Lissitzky, El Lissitzky : Life, Letters, Texts (1967; 1980)

“A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture. Nearly everything that encloses space on a scale sufficient for a human being to move in is a building; the term architecture applies only to buildings designed with a view to aesthetic appeal.”

Nikolaus Pevsner (1902–1983) German-born British scholar

An Outline of European Architecture (Harmondsworth: Penguin, [1942] 1957), p. 23.

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

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 6

Related quotes

Related topics