Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.
The unformed is not worse than the over-formed. The former is nothing; the latter is mere appearance. Real form presupposes real life.
It is no use working with other architects. What can they do? Who does what?
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.
Behrens had a great sense of the great form. That was his main interest; and that I certainly understood and learned from him.
I do not oppose form, but only form as a goal.
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it.
I really don't know the Chicago School. You see, I never walk. I always take taxis back and forth to work. I rarely see the city.
Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
After my time in Holland, an inner battle ensued in which I tried to free myself from the influence of Schinkelesque classicism.
God is in the details.
The architect must get to know the people who will live in the planned house. From their needs, the rest inevitably follows.
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.
When it becomes economically possible, building will become montage.
It is not possible to go forward while looking back.
I thought a lot and I controlled my thoughts in my work - and I controlled my work through my thoughts.
You cannot save wonderful towns. You can only save wonderful towns by building new ones.
It must be possible to solve the task of controlling nature and yet simultaneously create a new freedom.
The idea of service leads to community.
Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.
In 1912, when I was working in The Hague, I first saw a drawing by Louis Sullivan of one of his buildings. It interested me.
Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.
Create form out of the nature of the task with the means of our time. This is our work.
