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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.
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.
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Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.
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Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.
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The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it.
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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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.
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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