Quote on Solitude by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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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 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."
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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 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."
"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."
