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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to its times and manifests itself only in addressing vital tasks with the means of its times. A knowledge of the times, its tasks, and its means is the necessary precondition of work in the building art.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
- Details
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- Nov 07, 2020
God is in the details.
- Less
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- Nov 07, 2020
Less is more.
- Begins
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
- Epoch
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Chair
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- Nov 07, 2020
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not think it is an advantage to build planned packaged houses. If you prefabricate a house completely, it becomes an unnecessary restriction.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that an industrial process is not like a rubber stamp. Everything has to be put together and, as such, should have its own expression.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can use up all the slums for new development. In all the cities of the world, there are large areas of these. Also, you can avoid the spread of these silly suburban houses. Chicago has thousands of them all over the place.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Generally, I think my work has so much influence because of its reasonableness.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of our designs are developed long before there is a practical possibility of carrying them out. I do that on purpose and have done it all my life. I do it when I am interested in something.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is much better to have just one idea, and if the idea is clear, then you can fight for it. That is how you can get things done.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to know that life cannot be changed by us. It will be changed. But not by us. We can only guide the things that can cause physical change.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I especially remember that on All Souls Day, when so many people wanted new monuments for the graves, our whole family pitched in. I did the lettering on the stones, my brother did the carving, and my sisters put the finishing touches on them, the gold leaf and all that.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cheese was the staple. Bread you brought from home. The Schnaps came later. At the end of the week when people got paid, that's when you got your Schnaps, lots of it, five Pfennige a shot.
- Even Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
We made drawings the size of a whole quarter of a room ceiling, which we would then send on to the model makers. I did this every day for two years. Even now I can draw cartouches with my eyes closed.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
What would life be like if everybody insisted you must have actually built such-and-such a thing by yourself? I'd be an old man and have nothing to show for the aging.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great Sense
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- Nov 07, 2020
Behrens had a great sense of the great form. that was his main interest; and that I certainly understood and learned from him.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
In addition to the wishes of the client, the position, orientation, and size of the plot also play an important role in determining the final plan of the house. The 'where' and 'how' of the exterior then follows naturally from all of that.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
After my time in Holland, an inner battle ensued in which I tried to free myself from the influence of Schinkelesque classicism.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there really is no new way to be found, we are not afraid to stick with the old one that we found previously. So, I do not make every building different.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.'
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of light and shadow, as in ordinary buildings.
- Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not possible to go forward while looking back.
- Thought
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought a lot and I controlled my thoughts in my work - and I controlled my work through my thoughts.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot save wonderful towns. You can only save wonderful towns by building new ones.
- Building
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- Nov 07, 2020
The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something imponderable, something that lies between things.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
1926 was the most significant year. Looking back, it seems that it was not just a year in the sense of time. It was a year of great realisation or awareness. It seems to me that at certain times of the history of man, the understanding of certain situations ripens.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
It must be possible to solve the task of controlling nature and yet simultaneously create a new freedom.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
When one looks at Nature through the glass walls of the Farnsworth House, it takes on a deeper significance than when one stands outside. More of Nature is thus expressed - it becomes part of a greater whole.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature, too, shall live its own life. We must beware not to disrupt it with the color of our houses and interior fittings. yet we should not attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together into a higher unity.
- Idea
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of service leads to community.
- Architecture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020