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Danh ngôn của Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Sứ mệnh: 7)

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
God is in the details.
Less is more.
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
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 the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.
Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. he will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time.
The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions.
We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.
Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important as the buildings themselves.
Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.'
What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something imponderable, something that lies between things.
Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored.
Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.
Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.
Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real historical movement - one of the great movements which shape and represent their epoch.
Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.
I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.
Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.
Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.
Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order. Therefore, let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.
Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces.
It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise.
Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only such architecture is creative.